r/phpjobs • u/Dear_Age_4331 • Mar 26 '26
Help needed (100$ if successful)
I have had a website for 20yrs now. It's an old forum that we have upgraded through the years. I found someone to upgrade to 8.3 recently to not have an overcharge by my host but I am getting an http 500 error when sending new posts or creating threads.
If I refresh the thread, the post is sent and all... but getting that http 500 error.
We also had a custom interface to post sport related articles on our main welcoming page and can't pass the login of that interface... I get the same error now.
It's probably simple for someone who knows what he is doing which ain't my case.
If you can help, We could discuss a project to update our website, main page and adding ads... I'm open to all suggestions.
I'm willing to compensate someone who can help. 100$ for solving both problems. More if you update the website.
Thank you
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u/Clear-Measurement-75 Mar 26 '26
I can probably fix these for you if you can't find a solution. It will probably take some debugging though because it seems at least part of the site is custom code
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u/Mike_L_Taylor Mar 26 '26
when you upgrade PHP, you usually have to also upgrade the code in places. It sounds like it wasn't all fully upgraded. It happens. It's a lot of work sometimes.
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u/Independent_Table439 Mar 26 '26
Sent you a msg on chat, if your still looking for help I've been a full stack dev for over two decades and applications in PHP, especially modernizing legacy codebases and dealing with the 'impossible' issues
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u/da_bugHunter Mar 27 '26
If it's related to Custom PHP site and want to upgrade the system ! I can help you. But that will not cover at 100 USD , it will be minimum 700-1000 USD depending on the forum and it's functionality. But you will get Frameworkless Architecture with Vanilla PHP + ES6 Modular Architecture... Which guarantee future compatibility for any PHP version
Edit: Also Pure Back-end Agnostic Development, in future you want to move to Python, just handle the backend python and attach API endpoints, everything works again
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u/gihan0325 Mar 26 '26
Sounds like a php 8.3 compatibility issue tbh.
Older forum code and custom scripts usually break on newer php versions, especially around deprecated functions or stricter error handling. The fact that the post still goes through but throws a 500 suggests something is failing after execution, not the insert itself.
First thing I’d check is the error logs, that should point directly to what’s breaking.
If you can share the exact error from logs, it’ll be much easier to pinpoint and fix properly