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Fixing Joomla 1.0 for php 5.3.x

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Joomla 1.0 has a few things that break under PHP 5.3.x, as a number of users have found over time.

Obviously, it's recommended that developers now take the time to upgrade their Joomla sites to 1.5 at least, and ideally now Joomla 1.6 as Joomla 1.5 has reached it's end of development life, and most major components are now available for Joomla 1.5.

Following upgrading my version of PHP recently, I needed to do my homework, and have found a few simple workarounds to get Joomla 1.0 functioning on PHP 5.3.x until I can get to the stage where I can update the last few sites I have in Joomla 1.0.

 

Tweaking Joomla 1.5 for PHP 5.3.x

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Joomla 1.0 has a few things that break under PHP 5.3.x, as a number of users have found over time. How to fix them are found in my other article on the topic but there's also some issues that may pop up in Joomla 1.5 due to timezone changes with PHP 5.3