phppgadmin uses deprecated php commands

[Bas van den Dikkenberg]

Binary package hint: phppgadmin

System info :
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04

pakkage info:

phppgadmin:
  Installed: 4.2.2-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4.2.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.2-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When i login in to phppgadmin i get these error messages:

( ! ) Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in /usr/share/phppgadmin/libraries/adodb/drivers/adodb-postgres64.inc.php on line 663
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0001 327096 {main}( ) ../redirect.php:0
2 0.0003 327836 include_once( '/usr/share/phppgadmin/libraries/lib.inc.php' ) ../redirect.php:7
3 0.2315 2008680 Misc->getDatabaseAccessor( ) ../lib.inc.php:178
4 0.2317 2010008 Connection->Connection( ) ../Misc.php:328
5 0.3015 2516080 ADOConnection->Connect( ) ../Connection.php:42
6 0.3015 2516168 ADODB_postgres64->_connect( ) ../adodb.inc.php:430

( ! ) Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/share/phppgadmin/libraries/adodb/drivers/adodb-postgres64.inc.php:663) in /usr/share/phppgadmin/classes/Misc.php on line 359
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0001 327096 {main}( ) ../redirect.php:0
2 0.8229 5819616 require( '/usr/share/phppgadmin/all_db.php' ) ../redirect.php:21
3 0.8230 5819892 Misc->printHeader( ) ../all_db.php:407
4 0.8231 5820260 header ( ) ../Misc.php:359

[Bas van den Dikkenberg (bas-dikkenberg)]

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[Bas van den Dikkenberg (bas-dikkenberg)]

a Workaround is to add to /etc/phppgadmin/apache.conf

   php_value error_reporting(~E_DEPRECATED)

this suppresses the error messages, but is not the defnitive solution

[Calum Mackay (calum-mackay)]

I'm not sure about that workaround.

It does not work for me, on lucid, since you cannot use the error_reporting() function in an apache conf file.

I added it instead to /etc/phppgadmin/config.inc.php:

        // per Ubuntu bug 614481
        error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED);

and it seems to work.

Note that (~E_DEPRECATED) alone would also turn on E_STRICT, which itself causes further phppgadmin breakage, and is not in any case advised for production systems. E_ALL does not include E_STRICT, so the above should be safer.

[Calum Mackay (calum-mackay)]

I'd like to request that this bug have a higher priority; for me, at least this completely breaks phppgadmin - without the workaround - as I get a deprecated warning instead of the initial banner page.

[Benjamin (benjaminx2x)]

The fix is rather simple: updating the package to a 5.x-version of it, as Ubuntu uses PHP 5, not 4 (see http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=gophp5). So to work around, just install the latest stable version manually.

[Steven (stevenm-wills)]

What is the current status of this? The last update to phpPgAdmin I see was 2013.

[Jean-Michel Vourgère (jmv-deb)]

Next version will use libphp-adodb rather than bundling a specific version.
Hopefully this will fix that issue.
If not, bug you be reassigned to package libphp-adodb.