PEAR uses a lot of (IMHO ugly) hacks to circumvent bugs in (very) early php versions. Back when PHP 4 was released there was a bug with assigning objects to variables, at a certain point people found out that by using $a &= new class; circumvented that bug, and didn't pose any real problem in later versions, so PEAR uses that still. As of PHP 5.0.0, this is considered bad behaviour, but since PEAR should be usable for old versions of PHP aswell, it still keeps this syntax.Hi,
Having heard good things about the PEAR DB package I wanted to try it out on a new project. I'm using PHP 5.0.3, ran the go-pear and installed the latest version but upon including it in my script it brings up rafts of errors such as:
Strict Standards: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\dev\php-5.0.3\PEAR\DB.php on line 470
I run PHP with E_ALL | E_STRICT because it's the best way for me to catch all errors and keep my code sensible - do the Pear packages not also work in this environment or am I just out of luck re: the DB package itself?
It included and worked fine when I switched to PHP 4, but that isn't an option for this project.
Best regards,
Richard Davey
I personally find most PEAR packages extremely bloated, and badly coded, but that's just a personal opinion. However, you can edit the package yourself and replace the &= new to = new :)
- tul
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