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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0026458	mantisbt	code cleanup	public	2019-12-10 08:22	2019-12-23 01:50

Reporter	Wepl	Assigned To	dregad
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	won't fix
Product Version	1.3.20

Summary	0026458: deprecated __autoload function
Description	There are still errors caused by using deprecated __autoload function. [10-Dec-2019 14:17:29 Europe/Berlin] PHP Deprecated: autoload() is deprecated, use spl_autoload_register() instead in /xxxx/mantisbt-1.3.20/library/phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php on line 45 [10-Dec-2019 14:17:31 Europe/Berlin] PHP Deprecated: autoload() is deprecated, use spl_autoload_register() instead in /xxxx/mantisbt-1.3.20/library/phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php on line 45 [10-Dec-2019 14:17:40 Europe/Berlin] PHP Deprecated: __autoload() is deprecated, use spl_autoload_register() instead in /xxxx/mantisbt-1.3.20/library/phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php on line 45 Solution 0023710 seems not to cover all places where __autoload is used.
Steps To Reproduce	Tested with PHP 7.2.19
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dregad 2019-12-10 11:46 developer ~0063244	The deprecation notice is triggered by PHPMailer. MantisBT 1.3.x relies on version 5.2 of this library, and we are already using the latest available version (5.2.27). PHP 5.x is not supported anymore, and migrating to PHPMailer 6.x is well beyond the scope of changes that we would consider for the legacy branch, (critical bug and security fixes only). Note that __autoload() method is deprecated, but still fully functional. It is not expected to be removed until PHP 8.0. Therefore, we're not going to fix this. If the warning in your error log bothers you, you should suppress E_DEPRECATED notices by setting _errorreporting as appropriate in your php.ini. I recommend you upgrade to MantisBT 2.x.