PHP 7 with phpmyadmin gives lots of Deprecation Notices

Question

I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS running with PHP7 and phpmyadmin installed. However, I get a lot of deprecation notices like:

Deprecation Notice in ./../php/php-gettext/streams.php#48   Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; StringReader has a deprecated constructor  Backtrace   ./../php/php-gettext/gettext.inc#41: require()   ./libraries/select_lang.lib.php#477: require_once(./../php/php-gettext/gettext.inc)   ./libraries/common.inc.php#569: require(./libraries/select_lang.lib.php)   ./index.php#12: require_once(./libraries/common.inc.php) 

Is this a problem? How can I get rid of these notices (they pop up each time a page is loaded or action is performed)?

Answer 1

I had this problem and solved it with a simple reinstall of phpmyadmin and its dependencies. Run the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove --purge phpmyadmin php-gettext php-mbstring -y sudo apt-get autoremove -y sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin php-gettext php-mbstring -y 

Once reinstalled, you should be good as new!

Answer 2

The way I fixed this problem was by following the askubuntu instructions at depreciation notice error in phpmyadmin with 16.04. It involves changing three lines in /usr/share/php/php-gettext/streams.php and one line in /usr/share/php/php-gettext/gettext.php.

From that link, this are the changes you need to do (if you have ubuntu 16.04):

sudo nano /usr/share/php/php-gettext/streams.php 

Line 48 StringReader Error.

Go to Line 52 and change

function StringReader ($str='') { 

TO

function __construct($str='') { 

Line 84 FileReader Error

Go to Line 90 and change

function FileReader($filename) { 

to

function __construct($filename) { 

Line 145 CacheFileReader error

Go to Line 146 and change

function CachedFileReader($filename) { 

to

function __construct($filename) { 

Using sudo nano /usr/share/php/php-gettext/gettext.php.

Line 36 gettext_reader { error

I think you get the gist now, go to line 101 and change

function gettext_reader($Reader, $enable_cache = true) { 

To

function __construct($Reader, $enable_cache = true) {