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Why am I obtaining these warning messages into the page of an old Joomla website?

I am not so into PHP and I have the following problem.

I reinstalled an old Joomla website (it is an old version of the CMS that I have to upgrade) on my local server (XAMPP).

The problem is that now I obtain some warning message like this into the pages:

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in C:\xampp\htdocs\erusma\plugins\content\embed_google_docs_viewer\embed_google_docs_viewer.php on line 61

The website works fine but somewhere I have these warning. I think that maybe is something related to the PHP log settings or something like this.

What can I do to avoid these links? (I can't change the code)

Solution

  • Here are a few options (listed in increasing level of difficulty):

    • Ignore the warning messages as they are likely doing no harm especially on local host.

    • Suppress the warning messages via the appropriate option in Joomla Global Configuration and/or directives in php.ini or .htaccess files.

    • Downgrade PHP to an earlier version.

    • Upgrade Joomla / third party extensions to later versions.

    • Fix the code.