[2.7] adds deprecation notices.

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix?      | no
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | yes
| Tests pass?   | Travis will tell...
| Fixed tickets | ~
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | ~

To prevent an infinite loop, this one should be:
`$this->handleError(E_USER_DEPRECATED, 'The '.__METHOD__.' method is deprecated since version 2.6 and will be removed in 3.0. Use the handleError() method instead.', __FILE__, __LINE__, array());`