Bulbagarden Gallery pages broken

[Stratelier]

A community photo gallery - Bulbagarden Fanart Gallery

Okay, so it's not fatally or 100% broken, but it does look like somebody set up us the bomb.

Warning: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/themozz/public_html/gallery/forums/vb3.php on line 574

Warning: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /home/themozz/public_html/gallery/pp-inc.php on line 2495

Warning: Function eregi_replace() is deprecated in /home/themozz/public_html/gallery/pp-inc.php on line 2498

The second and third PHP warnings are repeated (literally) hundreds of times across the entire page, in five groups of approximately 40-50 messages apiece.

 

[Proxima Centauri B]

@Archaic Do you know what might be causing this?

 

[Stratelier]

Well, according to the PHP manual, PHP 5.3 deprecates the ereg_* functions (POSIX regular expressions) in favor of preg_* functions (PCRE regular expressions); the old functions still work but now throw an E_DEPRECATED notice.

It could be silenced by adjusting the PHP error reporting to ignore E_DEPRECATED, but that's just a workaround and doesn't fix the underlying issue that the functions may be removed in a future version of PHP.