yeah anyone know where i could find a decent php 4.3.2 tutorial. i knew a lot of an earlier version but i recently upgraded and nothing on my site works anymore. thanks.

probably just autoglobals and superglobals settings being amended - basically meaning you have to address variables in a different manner.

if you put
extract($_REQUEST);
at the top of your scripts and they start working again (or get a few steps further) then that is the problem (note: extracting the request array is very unsecure - only use as a test)

then read
http://www.php-forum.com/p/viewtopic.php?t=1483
and
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php

not tutorials as such - just pointers for the register_globals = OFF default of php4.2+