‘PHP Deprecated’ warnings on every screen

Resolved Andrew Rothman
(@arothman)

15 years, 8 months ago

Hi all,

I’m attempting to install WordPress 2.7 on a Win2003 server with PHP 5.3. I’m getting this litany of messages at the bottom of every screen… any idea how to either fix the problem or hide the warnings? I’ve attempted to turn off the messages in the php.ini, but they persist…

Thanks!
Drew

PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 512 PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 527 PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 534 PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 570 PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-includes\cache.php on line 103 PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-includes\query.php on line 61 PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-includes\theme.php on line 1109

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Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)
(@otto42)

WordPress.org Admin

15 years, 8 months ago

That indicates that you’re running a really new version of PHP 5, which adds those warnings on older PHP 4 compatible code. Annoying, huh?

Add this to the top of your wp-config.php file, right after the first <?php line:
error_reporting(0);

That will turn off warnings and such.

Thread Starter Andrew Rothman
(@arothman)

15 years, 8 months ago

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. Been looking for that answer all day!

I have added the new line to query, cache, theme, and settings.php, but I am still getting this one last message:

PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-includes\cache.php on line 105

I know that the error reporting (0) is working in the cache.php because when I remove it I get even more errors, but that one line 105 message is still popping. Any idea how to kill that last one?

Thanks!

Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)
(@otto42)

WordPress.org Admin

15 years, 8 months ago

I have added the new line to query, cache, theme, and settings.php

No, no, just add it to the main wp-config.php file. That’s the only place you need it in all of WordPress.

Thread Starter Andrew Rothman
(@arothman)

15 years, 8 months ago

Well, when I added it to the wp-config.php I still had about half of the errors… as I added it to the others, the errors went away… except for that last one, which is still showing up. 🙂
Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)
(@otto42)

WordPress.org Admin

15 years, 8 months ago
Ugh. Dang, I forgot that wp-settings screws with the error_reporting settings too.

In your wp-settings.php file, you’ll find this code:
```
// Add define('WP_DEBUG',true); to wp-config.php to enable display of notices during development.
if (defined('WP_DEBUG') and WP_DEBUG == true) {
	error_reporting(E_ALL);
} else {
	error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE ^ E_USER_NOTICE);
}
```
Change that “E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE ^ E_USER_NOTICE” bit to zero.
Thread Starter Andrew Rothman
(@arothman)

15 years, 8 months ago

Otto, you magnificent bastard!

Much obliged…

ruslany
(@ruslany)

15 years, 7 months ago

I changed the wp-settings.php file as described and most of the warnings are gone, but there are a couple of warnings still reported for the wp-settings.php file itself:

PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 472 PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 487 PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 494 PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 530

Looks like the error_reporting setting does not take effect on this file. If I move the entire condition into wp-config.php, then I do not get any warnings.

suki80
(@suki80)

14 years, 11 months ago

try put & ~E_DEPRECATED mask, i.e:
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED);

ulyss
(@ulyss)

14 years, 9 months ago

On your server, edit the file php.ini

Put a semicolon(;) before the line “error_reporting =”