After fixing the problem with php 5.3 and the openid library I ran into the next problem.

Trying to to use the provided example that comes with the openid php library,
with google openid url -  https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id

And getting:

Fatal error: current_url must be a string; see NEWS file for upgrading notes. in /var/www/clients/php-openid-1.2.3/Auth/OpenID/Consumer.php

Wow – must be my lucky day today. Getting really really tired of the openid stuff. Especially cause I can’t find any decent documentation.

I figured out that I needed to add the url of the finish_auth.php to the complete function call in the finish_auth.php script itself.

//get full url of current script
$thispage = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER[PHP_SELF];
//pass url into complete handler
$response = $consumer->complete($thispage);  //modified function call in finish_auth.php

And I had to get rid of the $_GET parameter that was passed into the complete function in the example.
This seems to solve the problem. Getting a nice response:
You have successfully verified https://www.google.com/accounts…as your identity.
Except for a few warnings and notices of course

I used this url as my google identity url:

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?openid.ns=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0&openid.claimed_id=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.identity=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.return_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fcheckauth&openid.realm=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2F&openid.assoc_handle=ABSmpf6DNMw&openid.mode=checkid_setup

taken from this tutorial: http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OpenID.html

but had to replace

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud

with
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id
download modified finish_auth.php
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