What to do with Warning, Deprecated, and Notice Messages in Joomla

Written by: Tim Davis Created: 06 November 2023

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If your Joomla site is plagued with (or has some) Deprecated, Warning, and/or Notice messages when you have error reporting and debugging turned on, you may not even need to do anything about that!

- **Title**: "(1) What to do with Warning, Deprecated, and Notice Messages in Joomla - 🛠 MM #275 - YouTube"

- **Key Points from the Transcript**:
- Site migration from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 can lead to fatal errors, especially when testing with tools like Migrate Me4.
- After fixing fatal errors, warning, deprecated, and notice messages may still appear in Joomla sites.
- Tim Davis, a Joomla enthusiast, demonstrates using a Joomla 2.5 site to generate such messages for illustration.
- To showcase messages, he enables debugging and sets error reporting to maximum in the site's global configuration.
- Switching the PHP version from 5.4 to 8 triggers a fatal error, requiring a rollback to PHP 7.4 to resolve it.
- Deprecated messages indicate outdated coding that may be removed in future versions, warning messages highlight immediate issues, and notice messages are less concerning but still worth attention.
- The tutorial advises that you can disable debugging and error reporting in the global configuration to hide these messages if they don't impact the site's functionality.
- It's important to note that turning off debugging and error reporting may hide issues that could be crucial, so careful consideration is needed.
- The video emphasizes that even with debugging off, the error log may still accumulate messages, potentially causing storage space issues in web hosting accounts.
- Users are encouraged to subscribe for more Joomla-related videos and to enjoy building and maintaining Joomla sites.

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