Php should not print notices on pages: home ~ # grep ^error_reporting /etc/php/apache2-php4/php.ini error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE home ~ # However, when I log into phppgadmin-3.5.4 I see in the sidebar: Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/phppgadmin/classes/database/Postgres80.php on line 74 I have so far reproduced this with phppgadmin, but I suspect it affects all php code. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ITDNet.net/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups curl directfb doc dvd dvdr eds emboss encode flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 ithreads java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png postgres pthreads python qt quicktime readline sdl session sharedmem spell sse sse2 ssl svga symlink tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis win32codecs xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
php is 4.4.0, mod_php is 4.4.0-r1
This bug is similar to bug #99391, but I don't think it is a dupe - according to "error_reporting" no notices should appear at all.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99391 ***
Can you please explain why is this bug a duplicate ? As you have adviced on #99391, I have disabled notice reporting ( error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE ) but I still see the notice.
What I meant with "disable error reporting" is setting display_errors = Off.
The following script <?php class Foo { function &bar() { $bar = new Bar; return $bar->baz(); } } class Bar { function &baz() { return new StdClass; } } $foo = new Foo; $foo->bar(); ?> does not print a E_NOTICE with E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE for me. It does print the notice with E_ALL. This is the expected and correct behaviour. Are you sure that you are really using E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE and do not override this setting (via .htaccess, for example) somewhere?
I placed the script in a test dir and it does not print a notice with error_reporting set in php.ini to E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE and does with E_ALL, like it should. Placing display_errors = Off in php.ini silenced the notices too. Unfortunately, using display_errors = Off globally is a bad idea since the machine is used for web development and this will make debugging difficult. I tried placing display_errors = Off in .htaccess in the phppgadmin dir, but this did not work. A grep in phppgadmin dir shows that phppgadmin may be overriding global error reporting config: home phppgadmin # grep error_reporting -R * lang/langcheck: error_reporting(E_ALL); libraries/adodb/adodb-errorpear.inc.php: if (error_reporting() == 0) return; // obey @ protocol libraries/adodb/drivers/adodb-ado.inc.php: if ($this->hideErrors) $olde = error_reporting(E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR);// sometimes $f->value be null libraries/adodb/drivers/adodb-ado.inc.php: if ($this->hideErrors) error_reporting($olde); libraries/adodb/adodb-time.inc.php: error_reporting(E_ALL); libraries/adodb/adodb-errorhandler.inc.php: if (error_reporting() == 0) return; // obey @ protocol libraries/lib.inc.php: error_reporting(E_ALL); home phppgadmin # Is the phppgadmin overriding of error_reporting expected and correct behaviour ? How can I use .htaccess to disable error reporting for phppgadmin only ?
Re-assigning a misassigned bug, not a PHP bug. Also, 3.5.5 is in portage, you might try the new version.
Upgraded to 3.5.5, still getting the notices.
As explained by this topic http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2737911.html#2737911 it's a problem in the php code...who should fix it? Gentoo or phpPgAdmin team?
This seems fixed now. I am no longer getting the notices. I have installed: net-www/apache-2.0.54-r31 dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r1 And error reporting settings are: error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT display_errors = On I guess the update to php5 fixed it, I was running php4 before. Closing.
