[TYPO3-dev] PHP5.3: TYPO3 (and extensions) not compatible?

[Steffen Ritter]

Am 04.10.2010 13:33, schrieb André Spindler:
> Hello!
>
> TYPO3 (4.4) claims to be fully compatible to PHP 5.3, but as I understand
> the results of my checks, it isn't:
>
> Some days ago I set up a new webserver and decided to install PHP 5.3.
> Then I moved some TYPO3 websites to it and run into lots of trouble:
> - FE wasn't rendered any more
> - on one site I couldn't even manage to login into BE or installtool
>
> Looking at the errors I recognized one common problems: In PHP 5.3, there
> are some functions marked as "deprecated" as we have this also in TYPO3.
> These functions could normally be used in PHP 5.2 and before, but now their
> usage causes an exception.
>
> So I write a small extensions, which searches in the whole TYPO3
> installation (Core and extensions) for such function calls.
> You can find it in the TER now (extkey: "extcheck") and could be easily used
> from the reports module.
>
> You can check core and extensions separately and also search for function
> calls which will get "deprecated" in TYPO3 4.5.
>
> The serious thing is, that there are still function calls in the core who
> will fail with PHP 5.3.
> You can easily find out these call when you check core and the
> (system-)extensions.
>
> In the core there are only some few of these function calls left.
> But I think extension developers will have some more work to do to get their
> extesnions running under PHP 5.3... ;-)
>
> Greetings,
> André
>
YOu can deactivate errors on deprecated function in productive environments