Turn off deprecated errors in PHP 5.3

Question

My server is running PHP 5.3 and my WordPress install is spitting these errors out on me, causing my session_start() to break.

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home//public_html/hub/wp-settings.php on line 647  Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home//public_html/hub/wp-settings.php on line 662  Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home//public_html/hub/wp-settings.php on line 669  Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home//public_html/hub/wp-settings.php on line 676  Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home//public_html/hub/wp-settings.php on line 712 

This is annoying, but I do not want to turn off on screen error reporting. How do I disable these bothersome deprecated warnings?

I am running WordPress 2.9.2.

Answer 1

You can do it in code by calling the following functions.

error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_NOTICE); 

or

error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_DEPRECATED); 

Answer 2

To only get those errors that cause the application to stop working, use:

error_reporting(E_ALL ^ (E_NOTICE | E_WARNING | E_DEPRECATED)); 

This will stop showing notices, warnings, and deprecated errors.