I am using a very basic setup with no customization and no other non-core modules (except for Voting API of course). I had the FiveStars module installed and working perfectly on my Drupal 6.2 installation. I do not using caching (which is disabled by default in Drupal), and I only use a core theme (Pushbutton). So this is as close to a standard setup as you can get, and FiveStars was working fine.

Today, my host made two changes: it upgraded to PHP version 5.2.6, and it upgraded to MySQL version 5.0.51a-community. As soon as this happened, the pretty stars display disappeared and only a drop-down box is provided. FiveStars continues to function in this limited, downgraded mode, and the behavior is the same in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. On the Fivestars settings page, the preview displays the stars appropriately, but on actual pages where it is used only the drop-down box is shown.

I therefore disabled, then completely uninstalled Voting API and Fivestars. I then reinstalled them. This had no effect.

Therefore, it seems pretty obvious to me that the problem lies with the recent PHP and MySQL upgrades my host made. However, the rest of my Drupal installation continues to work perfectly. Could this be the source of the problem, and if so, how can I fix it?

Thank you.

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tomcarlson commented

One other note I forgot to mention:

After my host upgraded, the name of my php.ini file that I used to turn register_globals off and set the memory limit needed for Drupal was renamed to php.ini.upgrade.transfer. I contacted my host's technical support and they said this name-change was due to the system upgrade they had performed.

I therefore changed the name back to php.ini, and everything was fine. This is the only other problem I encountered from my host's upgrade. I am not sure whether this is related to the Fivestars problem, but I thought it may be a helpful detail to an expert that the upgrade caused one of my PHP files to be renamed. In my less than expert opinion, it seems that PHP.ini settings would be of importance during a PHP upgrade, but Fivestars files would not be, so it probably is unrelated.

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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

I'm not sure where to help with this problem, glad to hear that you got it working again. I'm going to close after no activity on this issue.