Magento fix: while trying to access connect Fatal error: Class Exception not found in Frontend.php on line 90

Essentially you need to edit the level of error reporting to supress php from throwing this error.

so..

index.php

change

error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

to

 error_reporting(E_ALL & E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED);

In

lib/Varien/Pear.php

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

to

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED);

4> downloader/Maged/Pear.php

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

to

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED);