Function set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 7.0

This is also an issue for smtp 7.x. Do we need a separate issue for that?

Also is this issue breaking? phpsnif reports an error and not a warning. Can we move to PHP71 and ignore this error?

I'm not sure that it would be a real problem because the code check if the PHP version is less than 5.3 before use the magic quotes:

$magic_quotes = get_magic_quotes_runtime();
      if ($magic_quotes) {
        if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0', '<')) {
          set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
        }
        else {
          ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime', 0);
        }
      }
      $file_buffer  = file_get_contents($path);
      $file_buffer  = $this->EncodeString($file_buffer, $encoding);
      if ($magic_quotes) {
        if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0', '<')) {
          set_magic_quotes_runtime($magic_quotes);
        }
        else {
          ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime', $magic_quotes);
        }
      }

Furthermore, PhpMailer is an external library and I'm not sure if we have to modify...

yes, sorry for not looking more closely. agreed this is not a problem.

Above solution is good to removed the following error

ERROR | Function set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated
| | since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 7.0

But in the else condition it uses ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime', 0); which is also throws error

ERROR | INI directive 'magic_quotes_runtime' is deprecated
| | since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 5.4

So do we have any solution for this.

So i noticed this issue still exists and these errors get logged . Is it established that these errors don't have any impact on functionality of the module, if yes then can the part of the code be removed which causes these errors. Or is there any patch for this ?

Here's a patch for D7 that removes the offending code