PHP 7.3: Deprecate image2wbmp()
function
image2wbmp()
function from GD extension is used to output the WBMP (Wireless Bitmap) format of an image.
This function is deprecated in PHP 7.3 in favor of imagewbmp
function. If you are using image2wbmp
function, simply replace the function name with imagewbmp
and you are good to go!
There are over 5,500 hits for PHP image2wbmp
in Github, vs over 39,300 hits for the imagewbmp
function. It looks like the PHP team deprecated the less used function over to minimize the impact.
Backwards compatibility impact
If you are using image2wbmp
function, replace the calls with imagewbmp
. Look for automated tools that can fix this for you as well.