There must be thousands of webdevs that have at one point installed Joomla 1.0.x on successful sites, where their hosts have upgraded PHP and SQL versions recently (and without notice!)
One of these is one.com, though it would be improbable that they are the only hosts that frequently upgrade their server software surrupticiously.
This is fine, except that if a large number of devs use CMSes where the point is to not dev all the php yourself, a large number of websites can be made completely inoperable if there is a flaw in the php scripts of the CMS, or if server software upgrades are not backwards compatible.
In the case of Joomla 1.0.x, every single page on my company’s site failed to fetch articles from the Database. That’s right, zero content. 
This was the error message from Joomla:
Warning: Parameter 2 to frontpage() expected to be a reference, value given in C:\xampp\htdocs\mambo\includes\Cache\Lite\Function.php on line 100
And this was the solution posted on Joomla forums: (All credit goes to Kjell Hählen.)
I wrote a fix. My version is Joomla 1.0.13 but I suppose it will not be very different for later versions.
You sould replace two files by the ones in the attachment:
/includes/Cache/Lite/Function.php
(this solves the “Reference instead of value”-problem)
/includes/vcard.class.php
(to make the contact form work again)If you rather add the changes by hand:
The changes to vcard.class.php are minor, look for:
Code:
if(!function_exists(‘quoted_printable_encode’))In Function.php I added a this line twice:
Code:
$arguments = $this->fixCalls($arguments);The new function (fixCalls) is added at the end of the file.
Get the mirrored fix file here, http://bitbrain.se/fix_joomla_10x_php_530.zip
It turned out to be a simple fix, just changing a couple lines in two PHP scripts, in my case I used the fix zipfile. I’m blogging about it since files have a tendency to stop being hosted and forum posts get archived.
I can’t guarantee the fix will work for your site. But it saved a tricky upgrade path for me, and so I wanted to make sure the solution doesn’t get lost, folded, spindled or mutilated. (Kjell, if you don’t like this, let me know and I’ll take it down.)
Hello
Thanks so much for the help,
It has helped a lot
Regards
great fix. Its work fine on my web site.
Thank you very much! I found the fix on the joomla site, but was unable to download the zip file with the fix. Luckily you’ve foreseen this and provided the zip!
Muy útil la solución a este problema. Me sirvió de mucho.
Muchas Gracias
Thanks so much !!
Resolví el problema rápidamente.
Gracias Max.
Fabián
Worked on my site as well!
Thank you!!
Effective and fast solution, my site works again.
Thank a lot.
Jose
Thanks for posting the zip files. Worked for the site!!
Thank you for you files.
Thank you for your thoughtfulness. I quickly found the old post without an attachment too and hoped it would be around somewhere — and here it is!
Tego właśnie mi było potrzeba! Dzięki wielkie za info jak zlikwidować ten błąd. Dzięki!! It works!
Thanks you!
Working great!
danke!
Hi,
another thankful User, saved me downgrading and a lotof work!
thanks a lot it really works!
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Thank you..its works
Excelente aporte.. Mil GRACIAS! He solucionado mi problema! =]
A very simple solution to this problem (without any extra code):
In Function.php file line 92
replace this: $result = call_user_func_array(array($class, $method), $arguments);
with $result = call_user_func_array(array($class, $method), &$arguments);
In line 100 of the same file
replace this: $result = call_user_func_array($target, $arguments);
with : $result = call_user_func_array($target, &$arguments);
the solution is very simple put ‘&’ before $arguments.
Grandioso.., muchas gracias
My site is worked. Thanks so much!
Dude, you rock!!!!!
You saved me a ton of time troubleshooting this thing. Thanks a ton. If you’re every out in Phoenix, I’ll buy you a beer!
Ottima soluzione!
Grazie
Wow, thank you for this post. He has rescued me…