PHP 5.3, QCubed and E_STRICT
Hey all, it's been a while since I posted.
So, anyways I started testing my current QCodo projects on PHP 5.3, making a few changes to fix things here and there.
However, I can't get over how stupid and persistent E_STRICT is.
At this point I've modified my project such that no fatal errors occur when run on PHP 5.3. However, a huge number of errors of the sort: "Declaration of...should be compatible with..." prevent my application from running.
Now I've tried monkeying with the error_reporting settings in my php.ini but to no avail. No matter what option I specify other than 0 (No reporting) the E_STRICT errors continue to occur.
I found a simple, hacky solution which gets my site working though. In the includes/qcodo/_core/error.inc.php file in the function that handles errors I've told it to return true if it encounters E_STRICT. This gets the site working perfectly so far as I can tell.
The whole "Declaration of...should be compatible with..." error is extremely weird and irritating though.
Specifically, it prevents me from doing things like this:
class MyDialogBox extends QDialogBox
{
public function ShowDialogBox($strText)
{
$this->strText = $strTex;
}
}I understand why they added this error, but I think it's extremely stupid and irritating. Maybe it is bad design to change the method signature in descendant classes but if I want to do it I should not be prevented from doing so.
Anyone else have any feelings about this?
There's a ticket with a patch attached that changes qcubed error reporting to obey php.ini.
Other than that, we don't have any control over PHP. But yes, being able to extend a function with additonal / less parameters just makes sense for inherited objects.
Thankyou!
For a while I thought I was going nuts, until I finally realised that No, E_STRICT is just bollocks.