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:

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Answer 1

The problem is caused by outdated PHP Class Constructor syntax. To fix this issue run the following code on your terminal:

sed -ri.bak 's:function StringReader.*:function __construct($str=\x27\x27) {:' /usr/share/php/php-gettext/streams.php
sed -ri 's:function FileReader.*:function __construct($filename) {:' /usr/share/php/php-gettext/streams.php
sed -ri 's:function CachedFileReader.*:function __construct($filename) {:' /usr/share/php/php-gettext/streams.php
sed -ri.bak 's:function gettext_reader.*:function __construct($Reader, $enable_cache = true) {:' /usr/share/php/php-gettext/gettext.php

Answer 2

I do not want to mess with the php installations, therefore I just restarted my Apache and it worked perfectly for me.

"sudo service apache2 restart"

Answer 3

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) {

Answer 4

I had fixed by setting error reporting to the following in php.ini file path /etc/php/7.0

error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR

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Common Values:

 E_ALL (Show all errors, warnings and notices including coding standards.)

 E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE  (Show all errors, except for notices)

 E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT  (Show all errors, except for notices and coding standards warnings.)

 E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR  (Show only errors)

 Default Value: E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED

Answer 5

restarting the server helped me

shutdown -r now

Answer 6

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!