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Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_URI::$config is deprecated

Filename: core/URI.php

Line Number: 101

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Router::$uri is deprecated

Filename: core/Router.php

Line Number: 127

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_DB_mysqli_driver::$failover is deprecated

Filename: database/DB_driver.php

Line Number: 371

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/config/routes.php
Line: 69
Function: DB

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$benchmark is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$hooks is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$config is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$log is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$utf8 is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$uri is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$exceptions is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$router is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$output is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$security is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$input is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$lang is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$load is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 78

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 56
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$parser is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 1277

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/libraries/Template.php
Line: 285
Function: library

File: /home/bladder/application/libraries/Template.php
Line: 178
Function: set_parser

File: /home/bladder/application/libraries/Template.php
Line: 93
Function: initialize

File: /home/bladder/application/libraries/Template.php
Line: 69
Function: set_template

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 58
Function: library

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$template is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 1277

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 58
Function: library

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$db is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 390

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Model.php
Line: 13
Function: database

File: /home/bladder/application/models/Url_model.php
Line: 7
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 62
Function: model

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_DB_mysqli_driver::$failover is deprecated

Filename: database/DB_driver.php

Line Number: 371

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Model.php
Line: 13
Function: database

File: /home/bladder/application/models/Url_model.php
Line: 7
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 62
Function: model

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$url_model is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 353

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 62
Function: model

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$page_model is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 353

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 63
Function: model

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$content is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 1277

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 64
Function: library

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$likecolumns is deprecated

Filename: core/MY_Controller.php

Line Number: 65

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 65
Function: _error_handler

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$wherecolumns is deprecated

Filename: core/MY_Controller.php

Line Number: 66

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 66
Function: _error_handler

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: session_set_cookie_params(): Session cookie parameters cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: core/MY_Controller.php

Line Number: 67

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 67
Function: session_set_cookie_params

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: ini_set(): Session ini settings cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: core/MY_Controller.php

Line Number: 68

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 68
Function: ini_set

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: session_start(): Session cannot be started after headers have already been sent

Filename: core/MY_Controller.php

Line Number: 69

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/core/MY_Controller.php
Line: 69
Function: session_start

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 11
Function: __construct

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$image is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 1277

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 12
Function: library

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$blog_model is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 353

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 14
Function: model

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Blog::$page_id is deprecated

Filename: controllers/Blog.php

Line Number: 136

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 136
Function: _error_handler

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$modules is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$blog_id is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$benchmark is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$hooks is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$config is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$log is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$utf8 is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$uri is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$exceptions is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$router is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$output is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$security is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$input is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$lang is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$load is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$parser is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$template is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$db is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$url_model is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$page_model is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$content is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$likecolumns is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$wherecolumns is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$image is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

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Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$blog_model is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

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Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$page_id is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 164
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_DB_mysqli_driver::$failover is deprecated

Filename: database/DB_driver.php

Line Number: 371

Backtrace:

File: /home/bladder/application/helpers/breadcrumb_helper.php
Line: 13
Function: DB

File: /home/bladder/application/views/front/page/post.php
Line: 1
Function: breadcrumbs

File: /home/bladder/application/libraries/Template.php
Line: 373
Function: view

File: /home/bladder/application/controllers/Blog.php
Line: 168
Function: write_view

File: /home/bladder/public_html/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

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· The app will feature in a Bladder and Bowel Health Supplement in the print version of the Guardian on Monday and in an online health campaign for the following four months.

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Download the CONfidence app and explore the information to help you take control:

We are grateful for the support from Expert Self Care, local and national colleagues, and patient and public partners who have contributed so much time, expertise and experience to pull this valuable resource together. This app is a result of a genuine desire to help people with bladder and bowel symptoms access information and advice that can help, and we could not have achieved this without this collaborative team effort.

Thanks to: Florence Nightingale Foundation; West of England Academic Health Science Network; NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG; Sirona care & health; Bladder and Bowel UK; NHS Bristol Urological Institute; Continence Product Advisor; ERIC; and University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol.



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