session_is_registered et al.

[osborne]

Session.inc.php uses the session_is_registered function and related functions, which are deprecated as of PHP5.3.0. Are there plans to replace them?

[mcrider]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for spotting--I've filed the bug here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6628

Cheers,
Matt

[aftavaresjr]

Hello friends, I have a problem with OJS here and I'm not sure solve. If you can help I am immensely grateful.
I was having problems as the variable "session_is_registered" that was interrupted by PHP and could not access the system because of an error with it. I had upgraded from PHP 5.3 to 5.4.
I made the changes suggested here on the forum, comment out the line that contains a call to the function in the file Session.inc.php and it worked, but not everything.
The page view "(page User) Managing Editor -> (settings and tools) configuration" simply does not open anything. It is blank and shows nothing.
I can not see anything in error logs, both apache and php.
Does anyone have a tip or idea of what can be?

thank you
hugs
Alfredo

[springday]

I have the same problem as aftavaresjr after upgrading from PHP 5.3 to 5.4. The page BASE_DIR/index.php/fi/manager/setup remains blank. I do not get an error message in the browser and can't find any info in Apache's or PHP's logs.

I've run xdebug to trace the program execution, but being an amateur I can't find the answer to what's going wrong. Anyway, the program run-through is ending with a two calls to "ADODB_mysql->ErrorNo()" from ojs-2.3.7\lib\pkp\classes\db\DAO.inc.php:200 and "mysql_errno(resource(53) of type (mysql link persistent))" from ojs-2.3.7\lib\pkp\lib\adodb\drivers\adodb-mysql.inc.php:515. Dies mysql error-number "resoure(53)" help anything to track down the problem with the deprecated "session_is_registered"-function?
The very last line on the stack trace is "SessionManager->close()" from \ojs-2.3.7\lib\pkp\classes\session\SessionManager.inc.php:0, which returns TRUE.

Best wishes,
Kai

[springday]

I'm one step (i.e. one error message) further:

Fatal error: Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in C:\xampp\htdocs\ojs-2.3.7\pages\manager\SetupHandler.inc.php on line 193

So now I wonder if I'm in the right forum at all - is this error related with the disabling of "session_is_registered" or not? Can I change the code line

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$journal =& $router->getContext(&$request);

to

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$journal =& $router->getContext($request);

without negative side effects?

[asmecher]

Hi Kai,

Yes, you can remove the ampersand in that case to fix the warning. I'll file and commit this for the next release. (See http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7717 for the same change in patch form.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team