[support] PHP 5.3 upgrade problems

[andy baxter]

Hi all,

I have recently moved a site from my test server (which is running php 
5.2) to the live server (which is running php 5.3).

Since doing this, a lot of pages are throwing error messages about a 
function expecting a reference argument.

I have done enough research to get some idea of what the basic problem 
is, but still don't feel that I understand it well enough to dive in to 
trying to patch the code. So far all I have done is add something to the 
template to suppress warnings for non-admin users.

If anyone can help with this, I would appreciate it - the site is going 
public in two days and I still have some other things I need to sort out 
before then. Does anyone know of any well written explanations on-line 
of how this issue has come about and how it affects drupal? Or if 
someone on the list could take the time to explain to me what the issue 
is, that would be good as well.

cheers,

andy