PHP Strict Warning: Redefining already defined constructor for class WP_Widget

[toby86]

This is probably a follow-up to #20801 which should have fixed this error...

I get this error on my current wordpress installation after upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1:

Strict Standards: Redefining already defined constructor for class WP_Widget
in /var/www/vhosts/jpbw.de/httpdocs/v3/wp-includes/widgets.php on line 175 

This is my environment:

• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64bit
• PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.28 with Suhosin-Patch
• mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.73

[dd32]

PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.28 with Suhosin-Patch

I believe this is fixed in PHP, although not in such an old version as 5.3.2 (Ubuntu probably back ports security fixes, not bug fixes), Try upgrading PHP and see if you're still seeing it.

See ​https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52160&edit=3
Unfortunately they don't really go into details as to what the solution was, and I can't find a diff view of the relevant changeset, so I'm just going to assume that they no longer issue an E_STRICT for that case.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Could not reproduce the warning on PHP 5.3.28 or 5.4.29.

[dd32]

Duplicate of #20801.

Going to mark this as a duplicate of the previous ticket then.

There's nothing we can do to avoid the strict standards warning in older PHP without breaking backwards compatibility, and since it should only be shown to Developers with display_errors on (and WP_DEBUG) I'd encourage them to develop with a more modern PHP (or at least a stable release in the older branch).