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Joomla 1.5.7 Security Release Can Cause issues if you use PHP4

27 Sep By Leave a Comment

This weekend, I decided to upgrade to the latest Joomla 1.5.7 Security Release and ran into an issue. After checking the site I was faced with the following error when I went to the home page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: htmlspecialchars_decode() in /../htdocs/includes/application.php on line 246

After a quick search in Google, I came up with the fix. It seems like the 1.5.7 version of Joomla doesn’t like PHP4 so an easy workaround is in order. If you haven’t already renamed your htaccess.txt to .htaccess do it now and add

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

The fix was found HERE in the Joomla forums.

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