Question

I am trying to use simplepie on a basic page. so I download simplepie from the simplepie site and set it up just like it says in documentation. I am using xampp on windows vista business sp2. I create 2 folders php and cache in my root directory and put the simplepie.inc file in php. when I run my code I get these errors:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Users\PDG-PC\xampp\htdocs\rssproject\php\simplepie.inc on line 738

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Users\PDG-PC\xampp\htdocs\rssproject\php\simplepie.inc on line 1108
Strict Standards: Non-static method SimplePie_Misc::fix_protocol() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\Users\PDG-PC\xampp\htdocs\rssproject\php\simplepie.inc on line 834

Strict Standards: Non-static method SimplePie_Misc::normalize_url() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\Users\PDG-PC\xampp\htdocs\rssproject\php\simplepie.inc on line 9317

the first errors run about 20 lines and the later errors another 10 lines. I am using simplepie 1.2.1 and xampp 1.7.7. is there anything that I am missing or should know about?

Answer 1

EDITED:

Okay: take a look at the developer’s comment here: https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie/issues/127

You would need to 1.3-dev version to address this issue.

“This is a result of our PHP 4 compatibility and will not be fixed in
the one-dot-two branch. To remove these, use the master branch
(1.3-dev), as it drops PHP 4 compatibility.”

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Please look at John Crockford’s solution from the page: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated

you might need to replace all the instances of =& new with = new in the simplepie.inc file.