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.

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Answer 1

I just faced a similar problem where a SEO plugin issued a big number of warnings making my blog disk use exceed the plan limit.

I found out that you must include the error_reporting command after the wp-settings.php require in the wp-config.php file:

   require_once( ABSPATH .'wp-settings.php' );
   error_reporting( E_ALL ^ ( E_NOTICE | E_WARNING | E_DEPRECATED ) );

by doing this no more warnings, notices nor deprecated lines are appended to your error log file!

Tested on WordPress 3.8 but I guess it works for every installation.