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[2005-11-19 22:27 UTC] php-bug at sm dot msk dot ru

Description:
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Trying to use DB, get the following:

Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/share/pear/DB.php on line 470

That line reads:

@$obj =& new $classname;

Looks like a syntax error / deprecated construction.

In phi.ini
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT

[2005-11-20 22:20 UTC] php-bug at sm dot msk dot ru

Dear sirs,

Is it a kind of joke to `fix' a bug declaring it be a duplicate of bogus one?

I install the package and PHP says it is full of syntax errors. That error message was the first but not a single;
others concerned both `return value of new by reference' and usage of `var' declarations instead of public/protected/private.

Actually I need to run a package ( Squirrelmail, though it
does not matter ) which relays on pear DB. And pear DB seems
to be completely unusable. All I am doing is -- installation of FreeBSD ports which are up-to-date and contain fresh versions of all soft, i.e. PHP 5.0.5, Pear 1.4.4 and pear-DB-1.7.6.

As far as I can judge, the syntax used in Pear DB is not
compatible with PHP 5. It has been deprecated. Please just tell whether it is true or not, and is there a workaround or I have to downgrade servers to PHP 4.4.1 ?

Sorry, I have neither time nor wish to rewrite entire package to get working the application I actually need.

WBR,

Sergey