Joomla does not support PHP 5.3

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Are you getting these errors in Joomla?

Warning: Parameter 1 to modMainMenuHelper::buildXML() expected to be a reference, value given in /home/xx/public_html/libraries/joomla/cache/handler/callback.php on line 99

or

Warning: Parameter 1 to HTML_content::show() expected to be a reference, value given in /home/xx/public_html/travel/includes/Cache/Lite/Function.php on line 92

Its because Joomla does not support PHP 5.3 or PHP 5.3.1

Just downgrade your PHP version and these errors will go away

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22 thoughts on “Joomla does not support PHP 5.3”

  1. My host has also decided to take the move to php 5.3. Sadly, this causes a big problem with the websites I designed with joomla 1.0: content disappears everywhere!

    Here is a simple solution to fix it:

    Open /includes/Cache/Lite/Function.php and replace at line 74:

    $arguments = func_get_args();

    with:

    $arguments = func_get_args();

    $numargs = func_num_args();

    for($i=1; $i < $numargs; $i++){

    $arguments[$i] = &$arguments[$i];

    }

    Hope it will help :)

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  2. Awsome Alexis, thanks a lot :) it works :) however I have a question to you, if I make that change, will it work on older versions of PHP too or it needed to be change back?

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  14. Thanx!!!

    This really helped :)

    After my webhoster upgraded the PHP, my site was down :(

    I will have to upgrade my site some time to the newest joomla, but now I can decide on my own when to upgrade ;)

    Thumbs up

    Reply ↓

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