ecart 5 confirm page incomplete

I upgraded to ecart 5 and recreated my site in php to get around a problem I was having with a confirm.asp page in ecart 4.

Now I get a confirm page but it does not contain the checkout buttons at the bottom of the page. Instead there is a time stamp message.

<input type="hidden" name="x_fp_timestamp" id="x_fp_timestamp" value="

I am including a screen shot, and the actual confirm.php file

most likely a php error is occurring.

add the following to line 1 of the conform page to see the error:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors','on');

?>

Here is the resulting message

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mhash() in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\UltraAirVent\WA_eCart\checkoutScripts\WA_simlib.php on line 30

sounds like you php does not have the mhash library enabled.

try changing the WA_eCart/checkoutScripts/WA_simlib.php file to use the hash function instead.

change:
return (bin2hex (mhash(MHASH_MD5, $data, $key)));


to:
return (bin2hex (hash(MHASH_MD5, $data, $key)));

Thank you that worked.

Do you recommend upgrading to a newer version of PHP or would that possibly make it incompatible with my version of MySQL.

I have my local server working on IIS instead of MAXAMP.
I did this because I still need to use IIS for development.
I found a great article on how to do this called Installing PHP 5.2.3, MySql 5.0, IIS 6.0 on Windows XP install_php_mysql_iis.html

This works perfectly but I am worried about changing things since it works.

no, you dont need to upgrade, changing that one line should be all you need to do.