Title: W3 Total Cache error: PHP Deprecated
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# W3 Total Cache error: PHP Deprecated

 *  [William Henostroza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wihe/)
 * (@wihe)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-error-php-deprecated/)
 * My Friend:
 * PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated 
   in /home/wihe/public_html/myspace.wihe.net/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/
   lib/W3/Cdn.php on line 37
 * Solutions?
 * Regards
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [Chris Olbekson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c3mdigital/)
 * (@c3mdigital)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-error-php-deprecated/#post-3034006)
 * This just means that the code in question is maintaining backwards compatibility
   to an older version of PHP. In PHP 5.3.3 and later you no longer need to pass
   return values by reference. You can either remove the & on line 37 of that file
   or change the error reporting settings in your php.ini.

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