[ms4w-users] new version available - turning off notices

[Jeff McKenna]

thanks Adam :)

Your recommendations are correct, users can choose to log their errors 
instead, and avoid these nasty notices being displayed.

jeff




Taylor, Adam wrote:
> Congratulations on the birth of a great new upgrade!
> 
> In regards to the issues with PHP4.4, I had the same issue with I
> installed it on Debian earlier.   Frustrated, I just installed the new
> version of MS4W and this is what I did to make it work without the
> NOTICE displaying..
> 
> Edit the php.ini file as follows (in the Apache/cgi-bin folder)
> 
> 	1.  Comment out the error_reporting line where Notices are
> turned on. (; is the comment for php.ini files)
> 
> 			;error_reporting  =  E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
> 
> 	2.  Turn off Error Reporting
> 
> 			display_errors = Off
> 
> 	3.  Turn on Error Logging
> 			
> 			log_errors = On
> 
> Both steps 2 and 3 are recommended by the Chameleon-Admin tool :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ms4w-users-bounces at lists.maptools.org
> [mailto:ms4w-users-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 6:04 PM
> To: ms4w-users
> Subject: [ms4w-users] new version available
> 
> 
> A new MS4W version is available (1.3.0) at 
> http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html.
> 
> Notable changes are:
> 
>          - upgraded libcurl to 7.15.0 in cgi/mapscript (bug 1177)
>          - upgraded GDAL/OGR to 1.3.1
>          - upgraded PHP to 4.4.0 (bug 1179)
>          - upgraded apache to 2.0.55
>          - added recent gdal reference files
>          - cleaned proj directory
>          - created rSt/html version of install document
> 
> You may want to read the PHP 4.4.0 official release notes 
> (http://www.php.net/release_4_4_0.php).  A side effect of this security 
> fix is that a specific type of PHP notice is now thrown according to new
> 
> referencing rules.  For example, our testing on Windows found that 
> Chameleon 2.2 templates display 'Notice: Only variables should be 
> assigned by reference...' and these new notices could not be turned off 
> (frustrating).  In this case a new point release of Chameleon will 
> likely be required.
> 
> Please let the list know if there are any problems with this MS4W 
> release.  thanks.
> 
> MS4W Development Team
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Jeff McKenna
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca