Disabling Strict Standards in PHP 5.4
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I'm currently running a site on php 5.4, prior to this I was running my site on 5.3.8. Unfortunately, php 5.4 combines E_ALL and E_STRICT, which means that my previous setting for error_reporting does not work now. My previous value was E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT Should I just enable values one at a time?
I have far too many errors and the files contain too much code for me to fix.
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
As the commenters have stated the best option is to fix the errors, but with limited time or knowledge, that's not always possible. In your php.ini change
error_reporting = E_ALL
to
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT
If you don't have access to the php.ini, you can potentially put this in your .htaccess file:
php_value error_reporting 30711
This is the E_ALL value (32767) and the removing the E_STRICT (2048) and E_NOTICE (8) values.
If you don't have access to the .htaccess file or it's not enabled, you'll probably need to put this at the top of the PHP section of any script that gets loaded from a browser call:
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_STRICT & ~E_NOTICE);
One of those should help you be able to use the software. The notices and strict stuff are indicators of problems or potential problems though and you may find some of the code is not working correctly in PHP 5.4.
Solution 2 - Php
.htaccess php_value is working only if you use PHP Server API as module of Web server Apache. Use IfModule syntax:
# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_value error_reporting 30711
</IfModule>
If you use PHP Server API CGI/FastCGI use
ini_set('error_reporting', 30711);
or
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_STRICT & ~E_NOTICE);
in your PHP code, or PHP configuration files .user.ini | php.ini modification:
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_STRICT & ~E_NOTICE
on your virtual host, server level.
Solution 3 - Php
It worked for me, when I set error_reporting in two places at same time
somewhere in PHP code
ini_set('error_reporting', 30711);
and in .htaccess file
php_value error_reporting 30711
Solution 4 - Php
If you would need to disable E_DEPRACATED also, use:
php_value error_reporting 22527
In my case CMS Made Simple was complaining "E_STRICT is enabled in the error_reporting" as well as "E_DEPRECATED is enabled". Adding that one line to .htaccess solved both misconfigurations.
Solution 5 - Php
Heads up, you might need to restart LAMP, Apache or whatever your using to make this take affect. Racked our brains for a while on this one, seemed to make no affect until services were restarted, presumably because the website was caching.