diff --git a/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/http.php b/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/http.php
index e6c6e89d..f20dde92 100644
--- a/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/http.php
+++ b/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/http.php
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ class SimpleHttpHeaders {
         $this->_cookies = array();
         $this->_authentication = false;
         $this->_realm = false;
-        foreach (split("\r\n", $headers) as $header_line) {
+        foreach (explode("\r\n", $headers) as $header_line) {
             $this->_parseHeaderLine($header_line);
         }
     }
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ class SimpleHttpHeaders {
      *    @access private
      */
     function _parseCookie($cookie_line) {
-        $parts = split(";", $cookie_line);
+        $parts = explode(";", $cookie_line);
         $cookie = array();
         preg_match('/\s*(.*?)\s*=(.*)/', array_shift($parts), $cookie);
         foreach ($parts as $part) {
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ class SimpleHttpResponse extends SimpleStickyError {
             $this->_setError('Could not split headers from content');
             $this->_headers = &new SimpleHttpHeaders($raw);
         } else {
-            list($headers, $this->_content) = split("\r\n\r\n", $raw, 2);
+            list($headers, $this->_content) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $raw, 2);
             $this->_headers = &new SimpleHttpHeaders($headers);
         }
     }
@@ -621,4 +621,4 @@ class SimpleHttpResponse extends SimpleStickyError {
         return ! $packet;
     }
 }
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>
diff --git a/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/url.php b/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/url.php
index 0ea22040..def0aa40 100644
--- a/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/url.php
+++ b/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/url.php
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ class SimpleUrl {
         }
         if (preg_match('/^([^\/]*)@(.*)/', $url, $matches)) {
             $url = $prefix . $matches[2];
-            $parts = split(":", $matches[1]);
+            $parts = explode(":", $matches[1]);
             return array(
                     urldecode($parts[0]),
                     isset($parts[1]) ? urldecode($parts[1]) : false);
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ class SimpleUrl {
     function _parseRequest($raw) {
         $this->_raw = $raw;
         $request = new SimpleGetEncoding();
-        foreach (split("&", $raw) as $pair) {
+        foreach (explode("&", $raw) as $pair) {
             if (preg_match('/(.*?)=(.*)/', $pair, $matches)) {
                 $request->add($matches[1], urldecode($matches[2]));
             } elseif ($pair) {
@@ -525,4 +525,4 @@ class SimpleUrl {
         return 'com|edu|net|org|gov|mil|int|biz|info|name|pro|aero|coop|museum';
     }
 }
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>
diff --git a/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/web_tester.php b/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/web_tester.php
index 40b16129..90544bdb 100644
--- a/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/web_tester.php
+++ b/contrib/simpletest/simpletest/web_tester.php
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ class HttpHeaderExpectation extends SimpleExpectation {
      *    @access protected
      */
     function _findHeader($compare) {
-        $lines = split("\r\n", $compare);
+        $lines = explode("\r\n", $compare);
         foreach ($lines as $line) {
             if ($this->_testHeaderLine($line)) {
                 return $line;
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ class HttpHeaderExpectation extends SimpleExpectation {
      *    @access private
      */
     function _testHeaderLine($line) {
-        if (count($parsed = split(':', $line, 2)) < 2) {
+        if (count($parsed = explode(':', $line, 2)) < 2) {
             return false;
         }
         list($header, $value) = $parsed;
@@ -1538,4 +1538,4 @@ class WebTestCase extends SimpleTestCase {
         return $trace->traceMethod();
     }
 }
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>
diff --git a/contrib/word_filter/main.php b/contrib/word_filter/main.php
index 2cfef471..d3c58293 100644
--- a/contrib/word_filter/main.php
+++ b/contrib/word_filter/main.php
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class WordFilter implements Extension {
 		$lines = explode("\n", $raw);
 		$map = array();
 		foreach($lines as $line) {
-			$parts = split(",", $line);
+			$parts = explode(",", $line);
 			if(count($parts) == 2) {
 				$map[$parts[0]] = $parts[1];
 			}
diff --git a/core/database.class.php b/core/database.class.php
index 3e7bcaf3..8dc0f0fa 100644
--- a/core/database.class.php
+++ b/core/database.class.php
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ class MemcacheCache implements CacheEngine {
 	var $memcache=null, $hits=0, $misses=0;
 
 	public function __construct($args) {
-		$hp = split(":", $args);
+		$hp = explode(":", $args);
 		if(class_exists("Memcache")) {
 			$this->memcache = new Memcache;
 			@$this->memcache->pconnect($hp[0], $hp[1]);
diff --git a/core/util.inc.php b/core/util.inc.php
index 64bf3a23..d6848538 100644
--- a/core/util.inc.php
+++ b/core/util.inc.php
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ function _get_page_request() {
 	$args = _get_query_parts();
 
 	if(count($args) == 0 || strlen($args[0]) == 0) {
-		$args = split('/', $config->get_string('front_page'));
+		$args = explode('/', $config->get_string('front_page'));
 	}
 
 	return new PageRequestEvent($args);