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Codeigniter common.php reference error on line 257

Codeigniter is one of the top development frameworks you can find for PHP. CI provides a combination of powerful web applications development features with a very small footprint.

If you are running Codeigniter 2 and recently upgraded to latest PHP version (PHP 5.6.0+ and Apache 2.0+), you have definitely come across the error shown below.
A PHP Error was encountered Severity: Notice 
Message: Only variable references should be returned by reference 
Filename: core/Common.php Line Number: 257

 quick fix/hack

Edit filename: core/Common.php, line number: 257

before
return $_config[0] =& $config;
after
$_config[0] =& $config; 
return $_config[0];

1 comment:

  1. this "bug" was fixed in release 2.2.1 https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/blob/2.2.1/system/core/Common.php

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