OCS Huge number of apache errors about Non-static methods

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Hi

On my test OCS system Im getting huge numbers of errors in the apache logs. 5 MB per click on a page.
[Sun May 29 13:01:52.000626 2016] [:error] [pid 20163:tid 139686218475264] [client 58.172.168.104:49235] FastCGI: server “/usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi” stderr: PHP message: PHP Deprecated: Non-static method Registry::set() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/ocs/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/core/PKPApplication.inc.php on line 71
[Sun May 29 13:01:52.000736 2016] [:error] [pid 20163:tid 139686218475264] [client 58.172.168.104:49235] FastCGI: server “/usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi” stderr: PHP message: PHP Deprecated: Non-static method Registry::getRegistry() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/ocs/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/core/Registry.inc.php on line 56
…
[Sun May 29 13:01:52.000812 2016] [:error] [pid 20163:tid 139686218475264] [client 58.172.168.104:49235] FastCGI: server “/usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi” stderr: PHP message: PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method Config::getVar() should not be called statically in /home/ocs/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/xml/XMLParser.inc.php on line 24
[Sun May 29 13:01:52.000825 2016] [:error] [pid 20163:tid 139686218475264] [client 58.172.168.104:49235] FastCGI: server “/usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi” stderr: PHP message: PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method Config::getData() should not be called statically in /home/ocs/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/config/Config.inc.php on line 36
etc

Im not getting these errors on another OCS that I have setup to be used in a months time for production. So its maybe something in the config of the test one. I wasn’t getting them last week oe maybe earlier.
Have you seen these before. The old forum had something similar but not quite the same. I have just found this old Bug 3822 - Static methods not declared using the “static” keyword

Mike

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Hi @MikeL,

OCS was written to support both PHP4 and PHP5; PHP4 didn’t support the static keyword so we avoided using it. You can configure your PHP installation to ignore these situations without logging.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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The setting that is in both servers is:
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT
I’m using PHP 5.6 in both servers.

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Hi @MikeL,

That looks OK to me; did you change it to this from something else?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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This is the default value that it always was. It has not been changed.

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Hi @MikeL,

What settings do you have in your config.inc.php for deprecation_warnings and display_errors?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi

display_errors = Off
deprecation_warnings = On ← this was the problem
Have now turned off deprecation_warnings. Will keep an eye now on the apache log sizes.

Mike