Error - Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP?

Have started getting the following error on our contact form pages...

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; Validations_WhereClause has a deprecated constructor in /home/linweb08/j/jb-graham.co.uk/user/htdocs/webassist/form_validations/wavt_scripts_php.php on line 667

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; WA_MAILOBJ has a deprecated constructor in /home/linweb08/j/jb-graham.co.uk/user/htdocs/webassist/email/mail_php.php on line 70

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; WAUE_Log_Bindings has a deprecated constructor in /home/linweb08/j/jb-graham.co.uk/user/htdocs/webassist/email/mailformatting_php.php on line 2

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; WAUE_Log_Event has a deprecated constructor in /home/linweb08/j/jb-graham.co.uk/user/htdocs/webassist/email/mailformatting_php.php on line 23

Live example:
http://www.jb-graham.co.uk/contact-JBGraham.php

Has something changed with PHP7? How do we fix this?

Thank you.
NJ

Turn off Deprecated messages. They are warnings that it might not work in php8 but won't cause an issue in the current version. Those messages can be turned off and ignored for now.

It's on shared hosting so we don't have control over settings like that. I'm really not clear why these messages have just started appearing and, of course, I'm having to scurry off to all my other sites to check that the same isn't happening there. Hopefully the host can resolve this.

Thinking ahead Ray, is this going to be a problem when PHP8 gets rolled out?

Thank you.
NJ

We are already making the necessary updates so that it won't be an issue with php8.

This is a debug setting that should be turned off in any live hosting scenario. What hosting company do you use?

I'm sure there is a way to turn it off. Worst case scenario you can add code to the individual pages to turn it off.

<?php

ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED);

?>

The hosts are Fasthosts and they continually change server settings without letting customers know first.
Their reply to this is...

“We are unable to stop the error from being generated, but it looks like the issue here is that the site itself is displaying the error as part of the content of the page.

This will either need to be disabled via a script or perhaps via a setting if your site is a drupal or wordpress site or something like that but you will need to do some research online into how to do so. Depending on the platform it may not be possible (as from the forum I found it looks like this is not yet a feature of drupal for example).“

Looks like i’m going to have to disable errors on every page. Urggh :(

...and what happens now if an error is genuine? I’ll have errors turned off and will be none the wiser.

NJ

The code example only removes strict, deprecated, and notices... which aren't consequential. Actual errors would still be displayed.

Thank you Ray.