cakephp 1.1 with php 5.3

Question

I have just upgraded from php 5.1 to 5.3 and had previously been using cakephp 1.1 on my server. Since the upgrade (or possibly earlier, I can't be sure), I'm getting the following errors. Can anyone shed some light:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/dispatcher.php on line 157

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/dispatcher.php on line 221

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/libs/controller/controller.php on line 308

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/libs/controller/controller.php on line 347

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/libs/controller/controller.php on line 535

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/libs/controller/controller.php on line 805

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/libs/controller/component.php on line 128

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/libs/view/view.php on line 686

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/libs/class_registry.php on line 55

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/libs/model/connection_manager.php on line 84

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/vhosts/bbblh.co.uk/httpdocs/cake/libs/model/connection_manager.php on line 107

Answer 1

Basically what it says is: What you (cakephp in this case) are trying to do will still work in this version, but could be removed in future php versions.

You should upgrade cakephp to a newer version. You could also suppress the warnings:

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED);

but the danger in doing that is that you forget about it and your site stops working without warning the next time you upgrade php.