It is probably the Imagick issues. Please apply these changes http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/1626

Thanks, that's awesome. Will try those patches.

I uploaded those two patched files but unfortunately the page still won't fully load. I even tried a third browser (Safari) to make sure nothing was caching, but no go.

Thanks anyway...

You really should try to get your host to upgrade to PHP 5...

I'm on a dedicated server with a bunch of legacy custom-programmed software, so unfortunately we are stuck with PHP4 for the time being. Hope to move servers in the next 6 months.

I understand the reasons to stay on php4, no problem. For that reason my host allows switching php4/5 via htacces for directories. Maybe yours does as well?

If the page does not fully load you probably have some error in your log.

There is no PHP5 available, it's my own dedicated server, I'm my own host, so I know this for a fact. ;-)

If the page does not fully load you probably have some error in your log.

Thanks, I'll check the log.

Just checked the error log - unfortunately there are no errors of note. I really appreciate all your help. Open to any other brainwaves that you may have. Thanks again.

Where does the page load stop?

It stops after this piece of code:

Warning!
Localization of Zenphoto currently requires native PHP gettext() support

The next item Setup checks is the mb_string support. So I would presume there is somethign wrong there. But for the script to stop at that point there had to be a PHP failure of some sort. Perhaps PHP has just stopped without reporting an error, but that is unlikely. There really should be an error logged somewhere.

I guess I would check the configuration of Multibyte String Functions and iconv Functions. Also check your character set setting.

Hi there,

charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

In terms of iconv - not sure how to check our specific configuration, but I did find this: "Since PHP 5.0.0, this extension [iconv] comes with various utility functions that help you to write multilingual scripts."

At this point, I'm going to assume that ZenPhoto in its current version just is no longer compatible with PHP4.

Thanks again for all your help, it's been appreciated.

Perhaps not with the configuration of PHP4 that you are running. Certainly we have not tested that. But it does work with PHP4 on my server. Iconv was certainly present on PHP4 and Zenphoto's use of it has not changed.

Anyway, since things are stopping, one of two things is happening. Either there is a PHP error, in which case it should be logged somewhere; or PHP itself is stopping because of some internal issue, probably configuration related.