I recently upgraded to PHP 5.3.0 after having some issues with FASTCGI and 5.2.x on Windows but the moment I did this I started getting numerous warnings. The one that appeared the most was:
Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated
Apparently in PHP5 all objects are passed as reference and 5.3.0 formally deprecated the feature, which has forced me to turn off error reporting until I can update my code (including WordPress!).
So basically the problem is that traditionally objects would be passed by value and you had to explicitly declare when you wanted the object to be passed by reference. So for instance, an overly simplified example would be:
class myClass{
public $temp = array();
function __construct(){
$this->temp = array[1,2,3,4];
}
}
$someArray = & new myClass();
The & sign tells PHP to return the value as a reference. In PHP 5.3.0 you don't need to specify the &.
It's a small change but it has HUGE impact!
