[ILUG] PHP upgrade warnings

[David Coallier]

On 20 August 2010 09:23, Kae Verens <kae at verens.com> wrote:
>  On 08/20/2010 09:16 AM, kevin wrote:
>>
>> I upgraded one of our Debian Squeeze boxes yesterday and now I get the
>> following warning by email every 30 minutes.
>>
>> Warning: Directive 'register_long_arrays' is deprecated in PHP 5.3 and
>> greater in Unknown on line 0
>>
>> Warning: Directive 'magic_quotes_gpc' is deprecated in PHP 5.3 and
>> greater in Unknown on line 0
>
> you might have them in a .htaccess file for an old PHP script.
>
> magic_quotes_gpc was a really bad idea in older PHP versions which
> automatically quoted strings to allow them to be placed in database queries
> (for example). It caused a shit-load of confusion, and was one of the
> reasons early PHP was considered to be insecure, so it was dropped.
>
> register_long_arrays is about how POST and GET variables are stored globally
> in $HTTP_*_VARS - that's since been dropped in favour of $_GET, $_POST, and
> $_REQUEST.

For now just set your error_reporting ini config to

error_reporting = E_ALL &~ E_DEPRECATED

It'll ignore all the deprecated errors basically

If this is a live/production server, I'd also set:

display_errors = Off
display_startup_errors = Off


-- 
David Coallier