How to solve the problem with the use of deprecated function ereg() of PHP 5.3.0 in Drupal 6.13

Question

Anyone knows how to solve the error below ?

Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\includes\file.inc on line 895

It is happening after installing Drupal 6.13 on wamp server 2.0i with PHP 5.3.0

Answer 1

Looks like the problem is with PHP 5.3.0. You could try downgrading to 5.2.9 as suggested by this drupal link: http://drupal.org/node/514334

Answer 2

Drop your error reporting level below E_DEPRECATED.

PHP 5.3 introduced two new error reporting levels, E_DEPRECATED and E_USER_DEPRECATED and, for the first time in PHP's history, they've started to walk away from older parts of their API. THe erge_* function will still work, but this warning is intended to let you know that "hey, these function will be going away soon, probably in the next major revision).

Answer 3

You can edit you common.inc file to quietly disregard the deprecated error flags. See my post: http://funkinetics.org/klink/function-ereg-is-deprecated-error-in-drupal-6x-with-php-53/