PHP Forum

**VelvetWood** · 03-31-2008, 06:13 PM

I'm trying to link Simplog entries to my testing website as the content/text. I'm a real newbie at PHP. I don't write the code. I'm just trying to implement it in a website. I don't know what is meant by the error I'm getting: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of marker_sub().
The testing web page is http://www.redlavalamp.info

Help!

**amw_drizz** · 03-31-2008, 06:39 PM

try finding an updated script or something similar that does what your looking for. Or rewrite the script but since you indicated your new to php you may need to find either updated or a different script. Something that is compatible with php 5

**JeremyMiller** · 03-31-2008, 06:45 PM

"Deprecated" means that it is no longer used. Many people do make the make of saying "depreciated" which means lost value.

If you provided the code, then it'd be easier to proffer assistance.

**VelvetWood** · 03-31-2008, 07:56 PM

This is the code on the index.php page.

<?php
if(!file_exists("simplog/config.php")) {
echo "config.php file does not exist";
header("Location: simplog/install.php");
exit(0);
}
session_start();
require_once("simplog/lib.php");
require_once("simplog/class.BlogInfo.php");
require_once("simplog/class.BlogEntry.php");
$blogid = $_GET['blogid'];
if(!isset($blogid)) {
$blogid = 2;
}

$blogInfo = new BlogInfo($blogid);
//include("simplog/header.php");
?>

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Red Lava Lamp - Home</title>
<link href="/redlava.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div align="center"><img src="masthead.gif" alt="under construction" width="600" height="288"></div>
<table align="center" width="600" border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td>
<?php
$limit = 1;
include("simplog/blog.php");
?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

**JeremyMiller** · 03-31-2008, 08:01 PM

You'll need to search through your files for fuction marker_sub and provide that code for us to be able to help. We'll need the entire function to be able to maximally assist.

Also, please use code tags to make the code on the forum a bit nicer to read.

Thanks.

**tripy** · 03-31-2008, 08:41 PM

Quote:

You'll need to search through your files for fuction marker_sub

A small typo that I do all the time.

it's not "fuction", but "function" that you have to look for.

**JeremyMiller** · 03-31-2008, 08:44 PM

Good catch. See, if I had used code tags, I'd have caught that.

And, to think I skipped it b/c it was inline.

**VelvetWood** · 03-31-2008, 09:10 PM

Here's the whole code with function marker_sub in it...

#
# marker_sub - does substitution for markers, links, emails in templates
#
function marker_sub($line,&$blogEntry,&$blogInfo) {
global $act, $keyw, $trans, $format, $comment_win, $enable_smilies,$baseurl;

if(preg_match("/preview\.php/",$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) {
if($_REQUEST['trans']) {
$blogEntry->entryBody = stripslashes(str_to_link($blogEntry->entryBody));
}
}

**amw_drizz** · 09:32 PM

try wrapping it with the php tags so people dont complain alot about it

PHP Code:


			
#
# marker_sub - does substitution for markers, links, emails in templates
#
function marker_sub($line,&$blogEntry,&$blogInfo) {
global $act, $keyw, $trans, $format, $comment_win, $enable_smilies,$baseurl;

if(preg_match("/preview\.php/",$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) {
if($_REQUEST['trans']) {
$blogEntry->entryBody = stripslashes(str_to_link($blogEntry->entryBody));
}
}

if you do [ php ] before your code and [ / php ] (with out spaces ofcourse) it will out put like above

btw i think your problem is the

PHP Code:


			
str_to_link

A quick search on php.net turned up nothing. never seen that function b4

**JeremyMiller** · 03-31-2008, 11:50 PM

Thanks Jon for pointing out the code thing. I'm one of those people that don't answer questions if code tags aren't used.

The solution to this problem should be changing the first line of the function to

PHP Code:


			
function marker_sub($line,$blogEntry,$blogInfo) {

The ampersands aren't necessary in PHP 5 and will throw the error shown. I needed to see the rest of the function in order to determine if the answer could be as simple as simply removing the ampersands. Sometimes other code needs to be adjusted.

BTW: The documentation is at http://us3.php.net/manual/en/languag...ences.pass.php and you'll notice that it does address the deprecation issue.