Runtime Notice: Declaration of in symfony2

Question

I develop on to different systems. On of them using PHP 5.4 and on the other i have PHP version 5.5.9.

If I open my project with the 5.4 Version all is good and no error is report. But if I try to open the same project with PHP 5.5.9 I got the following error and symfony stop:

ContextErrorException: Runtime Notice: Declaration of Event\UserBundle\Manager\EventManager::getRepository() should be compatible with Event\UserBundle\Manager\AbstractManager::getRepository($entity = NULL) in ...

Now i read that the php strict warning can be produce this error. But in my PHP.ini error settings are this:

E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT

Anyone can help me to fix this problem?

Answer 1

The problem is that the method that you are overwriting getRepository is not in the same format as the base method getRepository($entity = null). To stop the error (by making it compatible), just add the $entity = null to the method declaration.

As to the actual errors issue (not showing and then showing) I can't help you. It's possible that things have gotten more strict in the newer version. I did notice recently that a newer version wouldn't allow a function to be declared abstract in a class and then also be declared in an accompanying interface, so it is possible.