I've been using pear packages in php for years. I'm in the process of upgrading/moving a sites that uses the MDB2 pear package and it has not been updated for PHP 5.3.X.
In 5.3, MDB2 is returning those new annoying errors.
Unknown: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/lib/php/MDB2.php on line 390
I know I can change my error reporting settings to get rid of them, but I'd rather not make any exceptions. Anyway, Is anyone else using MDB2 these days and have a solution? Are there similar database packages you recommend?
I would definitly go for an ORM, at least if you are working on a big project, for which you don't want to use mysqli_* or PDO functions/methods directly -- Doctrine being the most developped/used, nowadays (It's the default ORM of the symfony Framework, and can be integrated in Zend Framework quite easily).
About the E_DEPRECATED errors, though : PHP 5.3 is quite young, and lots of libraries/software/projects have not been adapted yet -- you'll probably have lots of those in the next couple of months :-(