Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically

Question

After upgrading from RHEL 5x to CentOS 6x, I started seeing these errors in my httpd log:

PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() sh

Answer 1

No there isn't. PEAR::isError is legacy from PHP 4 times.

If changing the error level in php.ini is not enough you should check

• whether there is another php.ini file being loaded (check phpinfo() output via Apache)
• some script sets the error level.

If all that doesn't help, set an appropriate level using the error_level() function at runtime, or if nothing else helps, suppress the errors using the @ operator. Using @ should be avoided as it is relatively "slow" (error reporting is slow anyways ...) and it might hide other errors.

Long-term suggestion would be to use more modern libraries.