php call time pass by reference

Question

Im working on a project which uses ole_pps_root class to export data to XLS. We are using PHP 5.2.14, and when exporting, the format of the xls file is collapsed, and i get the following error in the first some lines of the xls file:

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /opt/maut/teszt/include/php_writeexcel/php_ole/class.ole_pps_root.php on line 305

On the line 305 there is:

array_push($raList, &$aThis[0]);

If I remove the & I cannot open the produced xls file, because Open Office says: General Input/Outout error

What could I do? Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can simply replace the array_push() code with the following:

$raList[] = & $aThis[0];

This will do the same thing, but won't produce the warning.