After further review of the issue. Wouldn't it be acceptable to just remove the third parameter since your already using the super global in the method? Unless you're trying to make it portable. in which case... I'd give it a shot =)

Which PHP version are you on?

PHP Version 5.4.4
dump of phpinfo()
Build Date Jun 13 2012 21:17:57

Compiler MSVC9 (Visual C++ 2008)

Architecture x86

Configure Command" cscript /nologo configure.js "--enable-snapshot-build" "--disable-isapi" "--enable-debug-pack" "--without-mssql" "--without-pdo-mssql" "--without-pi3web" "--with-pdo-oci=C:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient10\sdk,shared" "--with-oci8=C:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient10\sdk,shared" "--with-oci8-11g=C:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient11\sdk,shared" "--enable-object-out-dir=../obj/" "--enable-com-dotnet" "--with-mcrypt=static" "--disable-static-analyze" "--with-pgo"

I wonder if that's an E_STRICT error - if you try adding & ~ E_STRICT to your error_reporting, it might go away?
That $_FILES doesn't belong there, in either case

no, the misuse of pseudo $this-> in this phpVMS version is an E_STRICT notice in 5.4, attempting to reassign the auto global throws a Fatal error, as in script cannot continue. Anyways, plenty of users are still running 5.3 so it isn't priority. But at least we already know the fixes =)

Yeah, this has to be patched for 5.4, but unfortunately don't have the time right now