Admin categories search -Creating default object from empty value (see in debug logs)

[DrByte]

Your suggestion works; however, I don't see where that object is used after that point in the code, hence the suggestion to simply remove it.

[DrByte]

Additional information is that prior to commenting-out those lines, I found a note in my categories file at another point

if (empty($pInfo->products_id)) {
    //$pInfo = new stdClass();//steve added to 1.53 for php 5.4 and E_STRICT warnings, removed for 1.54, maybe fixed?
    $pInfo->products_id= $pID;
  } 

Indeed, you had posted about that very thing in another thread, but it got lost due to hijacked discussions that got added to it. Apologies that it got missed in 1.5.4.