Hello, how can I create a forum for version 2.0.1.8 of smf or any one with an old icon?

The reason is that I don't like the new icons and new emoticon

I want these icon

My hosting provider just updated software and broke my SMF 1.1.21 forum.
They won't reinstall php 5.6.

I had previously tried to update to 2.0 and never could get it to work.

So I'm back trying again.

I have a duplicate forum for testing. Using Softaculous the update to 2.1.4 won't even start.

Trying to go to 2.0.9 gets me to upgrade.php

After logging in and setting options I click to continue to step 3 and get

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '$upgradeData' (T_VARIABLE) in /home/cadillac/public_html/misfits2/Settings.php on line 69
That line appears to be added by the upgrade script as part of the upgradeExit() function.

As long as it's there upgrade.php gives that error.

revert to the back up and it loads and get to step 3 again with the same error.

So reverted and tried the 2.0.1 large upgrade. Extracting that screwed up the file owners.
(my bad, I haven't used tar in a while)

While I try to get that resolved, any one know what the problem might be with the Softaculous upgrade?

I've been a user of a forum running SMF 1.1.21 for many years, sadly the sole administrator passed away recently. He had made arrangements ( I don't know what) for a user to take over. But that has not worked. All we now get is:-
 Table './hippock_HPAforum/hpf_messages' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed

Is there any way you could pass on my e-mail address to the new admin so that I can help?

Rob

Hi All, we have a very Old SMF 1.0.12 Read Only 'reference' forum and we have recently been upgrading the 'Live' active forum to 2.1.4 along with doing various upgrades on the server software.

Whilst I AM able to concurrently run different versions of php (our new 2.1.4 installs are on php 8.2), the current MariaDB version is 10.2.44 and so was wondering if the OLD 1.0.12 version of the forum would remain happy and functional if we upgraded to a later MariaDB version.

BTW, Is it Still possible to 'Patch' the Old version to a later version, that will Still 'Look' intrinsically the same ??

See here: http://www.masmforum.com/board/index.php
Thanks

Hello everyone! I'm new and wasn't sure where to post, so I'm trying here first.

So, I've been using 1.1.11 for soooo many years. I didn't even know this community existed or that updates had been made! Well, the host went to PHP 5.6 and the forums broke. I've created a hacky way to at least make the forums readable for now although you still can't post or even log out it seems lol. So, yeah, it's still very broken.

I was told there were actually newer versions of the forums! Well, this was good news! I then looked into trying to update to the latest version, but the instructions I found refer to a file called upgrade.php which doesn't seem to exist. Well, I started looking for more help and found this community!

I really need some help to get my forums upgraded to something that will function again. It doesn't have to be the latest version but hopefully a version that will be compatible with at least PHP 5.6 as that seems to be the oldest PHP the host will support. I'd prefer to upgrade as much as possible so that I don't have to mess with this again for another long time lol, but I'll take what I can get at this point

If anyone has the knowledge and patience to give me a nice step by step, that would be fantastic. If I've missed this already existing somewhere, please forgive me and point me to it