Site Gone After Php Update

I have been working on PHP 5.3 for a while, but after getting quite a few reminders, I finally went ahead and updated to 7.x (whatever the newest one that was recommended was.)

Anyway, when I did so, my entire Sytist went down. No errors or anything, just a blank page when I try to access it. I use Sytist primarily as a backend for client proofing, not as a frontend website. The website itself loads perfectly, just none of the Sytist stuff.

So.... what can I do? Where do I start to figure this out?

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Yes, he definitely does. I did post this Thursday, but I was largely referencing the numerous views without a response by any of those viewers.

Anyway, I appreciate your response Vance and took your advice.

After a chat with the tech support over there, it looks like my version of Sytist is not compatible with PHP after 5.6. I've temporarily downgraded back to that, but it looks like I'll need to update Sytist before I do anything else.

Here's the error they gave me, if for some reason it's useful to anyone at all.

PHP Warning: Use of undefined constant utf8_encode - assumed 'utf8_encode' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /(site address)functions.core.php on line 397
[14-Dec-2019 22:23:52 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in (site address)sy-inc/functions.core.php:9
Stack trace:
#0 (site address)/sy-main.php(20): dbConnect(Array)
#1 (site address)/index.php(3): require('/(site address)')
#2 {main}
thrown in (site address)/sy-inc/functions.core.php on line 9
[biggsp5@ecbiz226 proofing]$

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Ahh, that would make a huge difference if you were not on the latest sytist version, i assumed you were. Tim usually reply's late Sunday nights early Monday's. Hang tight and i think a new update is just around the corner,

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Sounds like you are on a really old version of Sytist, like 4+ years old. The current version of Sytist is compatible with PHP 7.3. You would either need to update your Sytist to the current version or leave the PHP version at 5.

https://www.picturespro.com/sytist/how-to-upgrade/

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