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[Anthony Ferrara]

Well, based upon http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func-array.php the variables being called (which are stored in the array as a reference IIRC) are not being passed correctly.  To me, this looks like a php bug (or a documentation bug) more than anything else...

--- On Wed, 4/29/09, Hans Zaunere <lists at zaunere.com> wrote:

> From: Hans Zaunere <lists at zaunere.com>
> Subject: Re: [joomla] PHP 5.3 and Joomla
> To: "'NYPHP SIG: Joomla'" <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 5:25 PM
> > I've upgraded a dev. server to
> 5.3 and it's severely broken Joomla. While
> > I've turned off all the obvious errors, there are
> things that just don't
> > work (like certain docman templates not showing up).
> > 
> > I'm investigating as to if the problem is fixable, but
> has anyone tackled
> > this before?
> 
> So actually most things appear to work without issue. 
> However I did find
> one culprit.
> 
> In libraries/joomla/cache/handler/callback.php around line
> 99 there's:
> 
> $result = call_user_func_array($callback,$args);
> 
> which ends up triggering an error:
> 
> Parameter 1 to modMainMenuHelper::buildXML() expected to be
> a reference,
> value given in
> /var/www/xxx/libraries/joomla/cache/handler/callback.php on
> line 100, referer: http://xxx/login
> 
> So in modules/mod_mainmenu/helper.php around line 31 I
> simple changed:
> 
>     function buildXML(&$params)
> 
> to
> 
>     function buildXML($params)
> 
> This works for now but perhaps it's not a good solution,
> especially over the
> long term.  The problem being that in 5.3, when
> there's a value/reference
> mismatch, NULL is passed in.  Whereas with 5.2, it's
> effectively ignored and
> it doesn't really matter.
> 
> This might be a long term problem with using
> call_user_func_array() in
> general but I'm not sure of a better solution?
> 
> H
> 
> 
> 
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