Description: ------------ ## from the PEAR QA team ## ## quality-assurance related ## ## PHP 5 compatibility issue ## Dear package maintainer, your package makes use of the assignement of new values to $this. This methodis possible in PHP 4 but will throw an error with PHP 5 [1]. Please take care of this issue forPHP5 compatibility reasons. Please answer to this bugreport directly through the PEAR bug tracker or the mailinglist pear-qa@lists.php.net . With kind regards, PEAR QA Team [1] http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.0b4 Reproduce code: --------------- FILE: '/php/pear/Var_Dump.php' : /php/pear/Var_Dump.php(275): $this = & new Var_Dump; /php/pear/Var_Dump.php(302): $this = & new Var_Dump; Expected result: ---------------- Solutions: The assignment to $this occurs mostly inside constructors (<Your_Package_Name>()). You should provide an static factory() or singleton() method for this. To provide backwards compatibility you should work around the affected code pieces. This can be done by a version check: if (version_compare(phpversion(), "5.0.0") == -1) { // assign factoried method to this for PHP 4 // $this =& <Your_Package_Name>::factory(); $this =& <Your_Package_Name>::singleton(); } else { // error handling for PHP5 // user has to use the factory()/singleton() method }

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been fixed in the latest released version of the package, which you can download at http://pear.php.net/packages.php Complete refactoring of the class in v0.9 : the package makes no more use of the assignement of new values to $this, and is using instead singleton/factory constructor.