Local Install Problems

[belvedere +]

Hi,
I've installed 68C locally with WampServer. Initially when it finished the installation I got the error message:-

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\setup\includes\step6.php on line 20

However it said installtion was successful. I setup the site through Administration but now when I try and register a new user using the default template I get the error:-

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\userjoin.php on line 222

I've tried magic_quotes_runtime to true / false but makes no difference

Please help.
Thanks

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

What version of php are you running on your localhost server?

[John Snyder +]

These are just notices about using depreciated php functions. These are meant to notify developers that its time to plan on replacing them because sooner or later the functions will be removed from PHP. You can turn this notice off with the following added to Connections/classifieds.php or includes/init.php and in administration/includes/params.php:

PHP Code:

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_WARNING & ~E_DEPRECATED); 


However E_DEPRECATED is only available after PHP 5.3.0

[belvedere +]

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

What version of php are you running on your localhost server?

It's PHP 5.3.5

[belvedere +]

Originally Posted by juven14

These are just notices about using depreciated php functions. These are meant to notify developers that its time to plan on replacing them because sooner or later the functions will be removed from PHP. You can turn this notice off with the following added to Connections/classifieds.php or includes/init.php and in administration/includes/params.php:

PHP Code:

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_WARNING & ~E_DEPRECATED); 


However E_DEPRECATED is only available after PHP 5.3.0

I've just tried that but it's still the same. Any other ideas.

Thanks

[Lhotch +]

What version of 68C and do you have any modules installed?

[belvedere +]

Originally Posted by Lhotch

What version of 68C and do you have any modules installed?

Version 4.2.1

Currently no modules or templates but I will install some once I can get it to work.

Thanks

[John Snyder +]

You may have to do it via php.ini

I don't use wamp, but from what I've seen you can use the tray to open up the php.ini where you can then set the error reporting. It should be something like this:

error_reporting = E_ALL

change it to

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_WARNING & ~E_DEPRECATED

[belvedere +]

Problem solved. Thank you everyone for your suggestions.

I have deleted the ampersand in the $db = &new, so that it reads $db = new as read in another post and that seemed to fix it.

[John Snyder +]

FYI that isn't the only location where that kind of coding for php4 support exists. Until the script is updated to full php5 support in upcoming releases you will likely have to make many changes like that. It would be easier short term to disable reporting for depreciated warnings globally unless you are debugging the script.