migration54-php-incompatible-1

  • Migrating from PHP 5.3.x to PHP
    5.4.x
  • Backward Incompatible Changes

  • Backward Incompatible Changes
  • Backward Incompatible Changes

    Backward Incompatible Changes

    Although most existing PHP 5 code should work
    without changes, please take note of some backward incompatible
    changes:

    • Safe mode is no longer
      supported. Any applications that rely on safe mode may need
      adjustment, in terms of security.
    • Magic quotes has been
      removed. Applications relying on this feature may need to be
      updated, to avoid security issues.
      get_magic_quotes_gpc() and get_magic_quotes_runtime() now always return
      FALSE. set_magic_quotes_runtime() raises an
      E_CORE_ERROR level error on trying to
      enable Magic
      quotes
      .
    • The register_globals and register_long_arrays php.ini
      directives have been removed.
    • The
      mbstring.script_encoding directive has been removed. Use zend.script_encoding instead.
    • Call-time pass by
      reference
      has been removed.
    • The break and continue
      statements no longer accept variable arguments (e.g., break 1 +
      foo() * $bar;
      ). Static arguments still work, such as break
      2;
      . As a side effect of this change break 0; and
      continue 0; are no longer allowed.
    • In the date and time extension, the
      timezone can no longer be set using the TZ environment variable.
      Instead you have to specify a timezone using the date.timezone php.ini option
      or date_default_timezone_set() function. PHP
      will no longer attempt to guess the timezone, and will instead fall
      back to “UTC” and issue a
      E_WARNING.
    • Non-numeric string
      offsets – e.g. $a[‘foo’] where $a is a string – now return
      false on isset() and true on empty(), and produce a
      E_WARNING if you try to use them.
      Offsets of types double, bool and null produce a
      E_NOTICE. Numeric strings (e.g.
      $a[‘2’]) still work as before. Note that offsets like
      ‘12.3’ and ‘5 foobar’ are considered non-numeric
      and produce a E_WARNING, but are
      converted to 12 and 5 respectively, for backward compatibility
      reasons.
      Note: Following code returns
      different result.
      $str=’abc’;var_dump(isset($str[‘x’])); // false for PHP
      5.4 or later, but true for 5.3 or less
    • Converting an array to a
      string will now generate an E_NOTICE
      level error, but the result of the cast will still be the string
      “Array”.
    • Turning
      NULL,
      FALSE, or an empty string into an
      object by adding a property will now emit an
      E_WARNING level error, instead of
      E_STRICT.
    • Parameter names that
      shadow super globals now cause a fatal error. This prohibits code
      like function foo($_GET, $_POST) {}.
    • The Salsa10 and Salsa20
      hash algorithms have been
      removed.
    • The Tiger hash algorithm now uses
      big-endian byte ordering. Please follow this
      example
      to write code that is compatible with both PHP 5.3 and
      5.4.
    • array_combine() now returns array()
      instead of FALSE when two empty
      arrays are provided as parameters.
    • If you use htmlentities() with asian character sets, it
      works like htmlspecialchars() – this has always been the
      case in previous versions of PHP, but now an
      E_STRICT level error is
      emitted.
    • The third parameter of
      ob_start() has changed from boolean erase to integer flags. Note that code that explicitly set
      erase to
      FALSE will no longer behave as
      expected in PHP 5.4: please follow this example to write code that is compatible with PHP
      5.3 and 5.4.

    The following keywords are now reserved, and may not be used as
    names by functions, classes, etc.

    The following functions have been removed from
    PHP: