Originally Posted by potter

Fris is right, you definitely shouldn't be using php4 any more. I'm sure your host allows you to switch your account to php5. You can email them and ask or simply google "myhostcompanyname switch to php5".

Usually if you're on a shared host and they have you default to php4, you can easily switch to php5 by adding "AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php" to your htaccess file.