Strict Standards Trouble¶

Task¶

Update a TYPO3 v4.4 installation

There it is, that peaceful looking 4.4 installation. It needs an update to 4.5 LTS now and to 6.2 LTS soon. Can that be that difficult? It shouldn’t. So let’s copy the installation to a local server first and try the things there first.

Problem¶

Fatal error: strict standards, getClassName()

But oops, what’s this? It doesn’t work at all but dies with a fatal error:

The exact error messages are:

What’s going on?¶

Let’s search the web. We go looking for php strict standards and that quickly tells us that its due to PHP 5.4 that now does include E_STRICT in E_ALL. So we need to disable error reporting for E_STRICT errors.

But what’s the best way to disable E_STRICT in PHP error_reporting?

Solution - advice¶

I tried several things and really wasted some time. To cut things short: Don’t tweak your php.ini or .htaccess files. And don’t patch the TYPO3 source either which sets the error_reporting value at several places. Instead:

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['exceptionalErrors'] ^=  E_STRICT;

I hope this saves you some time in case you encounter the same problem. Have fun!