[horde] PHP Deprecated errors

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl>:

> Hi folks,
>
> Recently, after upgrading my server system to Debian squeeze, which  
> includes PHP v5.3.2-2, I decided also to upgrade to Horde v3.3.8.  
> Having completed that, all of the new Horde components seem to work  
> fine, but now I notice that for every new Horde page that is opened,  
> very many of the following errors appear in my Apache2 error log:
>
>    ... PHP Deprecated:  Assigning the return value of new
>    by reference is deprecated in /var/www/horde/...
>
> These errors seem to be associated with almost every .php file in Horde.
>
> I tried to stop them from appearing by adding "error_reporting =  
> E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED & ~E_NOTICE" to my  
> php.ini, but that has no effect. If somebody has a better idea, I'd  
> be glad to hear it.

This works:

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED

So I can't tell you why it wouldn't work on your system.  Make sure  
that PHP is restarted though.

> Actually, though, I would feel a lot more comfortable if these  
> errors were not appearing in the first place. Is it because this  
> latest stable version of Horde has not yet been tested with PHP  
> v5.3? If so, when can we expect this problem to be fixed?

Never.  Horde 3 is in maintenance mode.  All the deprecated code has  
already been removed in Horde 4.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]