these errors are foreign to me as i have combed my code 100's of times
before i deployed my app online 3 months ago. do i NEED this newer,stricter
version or can i install a deprecated one?
It's not newer and stricter, and it's not Apache -- it's PHP error notices set to a higher level that your production server.
This is really around the wrong way -- your local (dev) server should be set to a high level of warning (mine's set to the highest) to encourage good programming practices, and should be set to none on the production (live) server to keep error messages out of the user experience.
The long answer is to fix your application, and hunt down all these notices/warnings, so that your application is of better quality.
The short answer is to set the error reporting on the live server to a lower level, so that these messages are suppressed. You can do this either with ini_set()[1] or error_reporting()[2] at the top of every script (or in a header include for example), or at an application level with a .htaccess file in root directory.
A sample of a .htaccess file would be:
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_flag register_globals off
php_flag magic_quotes_runtime off
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on
php_value url_rewriter.tags 'a=href'
php_value error_reporting 'E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE'
</IfModule>I'm not 100% sure the last line is correct, because I'v always done it with ini_set() in my PHP application.
[1] http://www.php.net/ini_set
[2] http://www.php.net/error-reporting
I would encourage you to fix your code as well as apply error reporting levels for both the production and live servers.
Good luck,
Justin French
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