Re: BC break with callbacks in 5.3

Hello Scott, actually it was a bug. We, sorry I, did not spot this in earlier versions. Now saying you rely on a bug in PHP 5 to be able to execute PHP 4 code simply does not work. marcus Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 11:48:50 AM, you wrote: > Hi all, > Static callbacks behave differently between 5.2 and 5.3, I recently > noticed this when trying to install PEAR, it printed a warning each time > call_user_func and call_user_func_array was used. > After some tracking down it seems like the callback option for > zend_parse_parameters was backported from 6 but the strict check was > left as is. > <?php > class MyClass { function test($var) { echo "$var\n"; } } > MyClass::Test('regular'); > call_user_func(array('MyClass', 'test'), 'callback'); ?>> > The prints E_STRICT errors in PHP 5.2 but in 5.3 you get a single > E_STRICT error followed by a warning for call_user_func. > You can resolve this by adding the static keyword to the method > declaration but regardless it's inconsistent as stands. I think the > strict flag needs to be removed for 5.3. > Patch is attached to resolve the issue. > Scott Best regards, Marcus