1.5.23 on php 5.3.8 - various Warnings: strtotime() .....!?

[unleash_it]

hello dear community,

first of all - i love Joomla -and i am a big admirer of this great community!!
What i have today: total strange ugly errors - running on 1.5.23 _ with php 5.3.8 - eg Warning: strtotime() [

i have ugly errors running on a demo-site:
strange ugly errors - running on 1.5.23 _ with php 5.3.8

installed: 1.5.23
PHP Version 5.3.8
see the site: linux-board.com
see some errors:

wat should i do?! Should i upgrade on the latest version or should i

- switch to another template
- switch off some extensions that may cause the errors


love to hear from you

see some errors:- at the site_ wwww.linux-board.com

Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings.
You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function.
In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely
misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CET/1.0/no DST'
instead in /home/vhost/WWW/linux-board.com/libraries/joomla/utilities/date.php on line 56


Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings.
You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function.
In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely
misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CET/1.0/no DST' instead
in /home/vhost/WWW/linux-board.com/libraries/joomla/utilities/date.php on line 198

i love to hear from you

greetings
jj

[unleash_it]

hello dear community.

does no one have some ideas that help here!`?

love to hear from you

greetings

[TrevorDurity]

Hi,

Those are just warnings. Why not just hide them by going into the Global Configuration, Server tab and set "Error Reporting" to none. If that doesn't work just put
php_value display_errors off
in your htaccess file.

That warning is common with 5.3 upwards.

Another way to fix is to set your timezone in your php.ini, i.e. date.timezone

Either way you can just hide the warning as it's nothing to worry about.

T

[gbhills]

I am having the same issue.

I am running joomla 1.5.25 with php 5.3 and I am getting the following errors

Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'UTC' for 'GMT/0.0/no DST' instead in /home/www/mysite/libraries/joomla/utilities/date.php on line 56

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'UTC' for 'GMT/0.0/no DST' instead in /home/www/mysite/libraries/joomla/utilities/date.php on line 198

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'UTC' for 'GMT/0.0/no DST' instead in /home/www/mysite/libraries/joomla/utilities/date.php on line 198

I turned off error reporting in Joomla and went into PHP.ini file and changed error reporting to off there as well as added the line to htacccess but still getting the errors.

If I were to set the time zone as it is commented out in the PHP.ini file - what zone do I use. Mine in Atlantic Canada or the California time zone where the server is.. And where do I find out what they are equal to... would Atlantic time Canada be Atlantic or -4 for example.

in advance thank you for your help

Gary

[SpecjalistaSeo]

I have problems with my client site. Service Provider (hostersi.pl) decided to change PHP version from PHP 5.2.x to PHP 5.3.3.7. My client's live site included Joomla 1.5.23:
JoomFish + VirtueMart.

There were some Bugs like:
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in: (many messages):

/administrator/components/com_joomfish/classes/JoomfishManager.class.php on line 230
/administrator/components/com_joomfish/classes/JoomfishManager.class.php on line 254
/administrator/components/com_joomfish/classes/JoomfishManager.class.php on line 263
+
/plugins/system/jfrouter.php on line 314
/plugins/system/jfrouter.php on line 315
/plugins/system/jfrouter.php on line 316
+
/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/global.php on line 85
/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/global.php on line 209
/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/global.php on line 209
/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/currency/convertECB.php on line 126
/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_html.php on line 239
/modules/mod_exmenu-j15/exmenu/exmenu.class.php on line 219
/modules/mod_exmenu-j15/exmenu/loader/factory.menuloader.class.php on line 27
/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/shop.basket_short.php on line 21
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new.
The Reason was in new PHP Version (PHP 5.3.3).
I had to make 2 steps:
-delete character & in some lines,
-change some classes name like:
ereg() - preg_match()
ereg_replace() - preg_replace()
ereg_replace() to preg_replace()
split() - preg_split()
and website started work fine;-)

I hope, it can be useful for other Guys;-)