Changes in SAPI modules
To find [and replace] string access offsets using {}, like:
<?php
$var = "abcd";
echo $var{1};
?>
I plugged this regex into my IDE [NuSphere]:
\$([a-zA-Z0-9_]+){([^}]+)}
... and put this as the replacement string:
$\1[\2]
This helped me find all the instances of this in my code, but it might not find all of them in yours. It will ignore stuff like:
<?php
$var_1 = "abcd";
$i = 1;
echo ${'var_' . $i}{1}; # this will not be found by the regex above
?>
Deprecated features in PHP 5.3.x
PHP 5.3.0 introduces two new error levels: E_DEPRECATED and E_USER_DEPRECATED. The E_DEPRECATED error level is used to indicate that a function or feature has been deprecated. The E_USER_DEPRECATED level is intended for indicating deprecated features in user code, similarly to the E_USER_ERROR and E_USER_WARNING levels.
The following is a list of deprecated INI directives. Use of any of these INI directives will cause an E_DEPRECATED error to be thrown at startup.
- define_syslog_variables
- register_globals
- register_long_arrays
- safe_mode
- magic_quotes_gpc
- magic_quotes_runtime
- magic_quotes_sybase
- Comments starting with '#' are now deprecated in .INI files.
Deprecated functions:
- call_user_method() (use call_user_func() instead)
- call_user_method_array() (use call_user_func_array() instead)
- define_syslog_variables()
- dl()
- ereg() (use preg_match() instead)
- ereg_replace() (use preg_replace() instead)
- eregi() (use preg_match() with the 'i' modifier instead)
- eregi_replace() (use preg_replace() with the 'i' modifier instead)
- set_magic_quotes_runtime() and its alias, magic_quotes_runtime()
- session_register() (use the $_SESSION superglobal instead)
- session_unregister() (use the $_SESSION superglobal instead)
- session_is_registered() (use the $_SESSION superglobal instead)
- set_socket_blocking() (use stream_set_blocking() instead)
- split() (use preg_split() instead)
- spliti() (use preg_split() with the 'i' modifier instead)
- sql_regcase()
- mysql_db_query() (use mysql_select_db() and mysql_query() instead)
- mysql_escape_string() (use mysql_real_escape_string() instead)
- Passing locale category names as strings is now deprecated. Use the LC_* family of constants instead.
- The is_dst parameter to mktime(). Use the new timezone handling functions instead.
Deprecated features:
- Assigning the return value of new by reference is now deprecated.
- Call-time pass-by-reference is now deprecated.
- The use of {} to access string offsets is deprecated. Use [] instead.
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User Contributed NotesDeprecated features in PHP 5.3.x
Chris at PureFormSolutions dot com
01-Jul-2009 01:57
01-Jul-2009 01:57