[Plugin: GD Star Rating] GD star rating does not save settings

If you read the info file, you will find that you need at least PHP 4.4.9. There is some strange problem with previous PHP versions, and I don’t have time to track it down. No one should use PHP4 anymore anyway.

Hi Milan,

thanks for replying. I read the info, but clearly not good enough. I’ll press my hosting company for upgrading PHP. Thanks again.

Arthur Wetselaar

GD Star Rating 1.8 will most likely drop support for PHP4 if more problems like this persist. So far, I can confirm that only PHP 4.4.9 seams to be working.

I’m having the same problem: GD Star will *not* save any settings changes (except for the number of stars to display). I am running WP 2.8.6 and PHP 4.4.9

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PHP 4.4.9 is partially supported, but only with default settings. But since that also causes problems apparently, I will change requirements to at least PHP5. I really don’t have free time to solve problems to buggy and obsolete version of PHP that shouldn’t be used in the first place.

I Am Hosted With Yahoo And They Said They Have Not Updated To PHP5 And Wont For A While. Is There A Way To Adjust The Star And Thumb Settings In My Current Situation?
My Site: https://2new4u.com/Downloads/
Please Help With A Response. Will Post Here If Solved.

Sorry, but no. PHP5 is required.

Thank U For Responding. I Did Find A Loop Hole That I’m Ironing Out But Thank U Again.

@young heff Can you please let me know how exactly did you resolve the problem. I’ve hosted with Yahoo too… I need to change some of the settings… Tried to edit the database directly, but looks too complex to map the admin page fields with the database data

Bit late for a reply, but after a long search i found out it’s possible to change the settings without having PHP5. If you change the settings in: gd-star-rating/code/default.php and then when you go to the gd star rating admin panel, go to the ‘setup’ page and click on the ‘global maintenance’ tab. If you click the ‘remove settings’ button it will reset all the settings by your edited default.php.

In the past few months I discovered that settings saving can fail even with PHP5. The problem is caused by invalid settings for security extensions used in PHP like Suhosin. They can prevent long POST requests, and can cut them short, so that saving fails. I updated FAQ to reflect this finding since then.