XF 1.5 Hosting company upgraded tp PHP 7.4.12 and that seems to have broken xf 1.5.21

It started with the forum displaying:
"A server error occurred. Please try again later."

Digging further, accessing /forums/admin.php shows
"continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"?
  1. XenForo_Application::handlePhpError() in XenForo/Autoloader.php at line 119
  2. include() in XenForo/Autoloader.php at line 119
  3. XenForo_Autoloader->autoload()
  4. spl_autoload_call() in XenForo/Visitor.php at line 520
  5. XenForo_Visitor->setVisitorLanguage() in XenForo/Visitor.php at line 471
  6. XenForo_Visitor::setup() in XenForo/Session.php at line 421
  7. XenForo_Session::startAdminSession() in XenForo/ControllerAdmin/Abstract.php at line 48
  8. XenForo_ControllerAdmin_Abstract->_setupSession() in XenForo/Controller.php at line 306
  9. XenForo_Controller->preDispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 368
  10. XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 152
  11. XenForo_FrontController->run() in /home3/weinarts/public_html/mwgl/forums/admin.php at line 13

looking at /forums/install/ redirects to /forums/install/index.php?upgrade/and shows

Server Error​

"continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"?

  1. XenForo_Application::handlePhpError() in XenForo/Autoloader.php at line 119
  2. include() in XenForo/Autoloader.php at line 119
  3. XenForo_Autoloader->autoload()
  4. spl_autoload_call() in XenForo/Visitor.php at line 520
  5. XenForo_Visitor->setVisitorLanguage() in XenForo/Visitor.php at line 471
  6. XenForo_Visitor::setup() in XenForo/Install/Controller/Upgrade.php at line 50
  7. XenForo_Install_Controller_Upgrade->_setupSession() in XenForo/Controller.php at line 306
  8. XenForo_Controller->preDispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 368
  9. XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 152
  10. XenForo_FrontController->run() in /home3/weinarts/public_html/mwgl/forums/install/index.php at line 18


Any suggestions for next steps?

Thanks.
 
It depends which version of XF 1.5.

Only the newest versions will support PHP 7.2 and 7.3.

For 7.2 support you likely need a release after January 2018. For 7.3 support you need a release after January 2019.
 
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