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[mc12345678]

What did I miss in the "posting tips"?

Well, I'll be my lashes to myself will continue until morale improves. I guess I was thinking that php version wasn't identified considering others had tested and not experienced the issue...

I know that my dev site has been operating with the same php 7.1 version, but considering the things I've been working on are product centric, I hadn't noticed what you identified, but sure enough it was the problem you described with the same "weird" capture. :)

My apologies, you provided at least what was needed to reproduce the issue. :)

[mikeel100]

No problem...the only thing I can see that I left out is the fact that I did duplicate it in PHP 7.0 and didn't try any other PHP versions.

I didn't realize I was going to dig into it to try and find the specific problem area...thus the scatter brained post, post, post. LOL

[mc12345678]

No problem...the only thing I can see that I left out is the fact that I did duplicate it in PHP 7.0 and didn't try any other PHP versions.

I didn't realize I was going to dig into it to try and find the specific problem area...thus the scatter brained post, post, post. LOL

Interesting, because I tried on the PHP 7.0 version available on my server (twice actually, once coming down in versions and once coming back up) and it didn't cause the issue... Do you happen to know specifically which version of 7.0?

Yeah, once I saw how things were going sideways, I thought I would take a looksee myself. :) Especially considering how frustrated you were getting between the results seen and recognizing that perhaps something wasn't understood. It is/was just another one of those, expect the data to look this way, but it doesn't because of something else...

The code I added to the function is intended to force the variable to be an array. I had considered possibly converting whatever value it is/was if it were set but not an array to start the array off, but then realized it is expected to be an array and if it is not then there is some wrong data being fed and therefore, dump the data make an array and carry forward... Anyways, again good find/eye. Taking action like that is what keeps it all moving forward.

[mikeel100]

Interesting, because I tried on the PHP 7.0 version available on my server (twice actually, once coming down in versions and once coming back up) and it didn't cause the issue... Do you happen to know specifically which version of 7.0?

Yeah, once I saw how things were going sideways, I thought I would take a looksee myself. :) Especially considering how frustrated you were getting between the results seen and recognizing that perhaps something wasn't understood. It is/was just another one of those, expect the data to look this way, but it doesn't because of something else...

The code I added to the function is intended to force the variable to be an array. I had considered possibly converting whatever value it is/was if it were set but not an array to start the array off, but then realized it is expected to be an array and if it is not then there is some wrong data being fed and therefore, dump the data make an array and carry forward... Anyways, again good find/eye. Taking action like that is what keeps it all moving forward.

The best I can recall is that I did change my PHP back to 7.0 after discovering the issue...that didn't fix it so I switched it back to 7.1 for ZC1.5.5f sake.

7.0.22 on Inmotion Hosting...here is all I could find on it.

[PHP Modules]
bcmath
bz2
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
exif
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gd
gettext
hash
iconv
imap
intl
ionCube Loader
json
libxml
mbstring
mcrypt
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
pdo_pgsql
pdo_sqlite
pgsql
Phar
posix
pspell
Reflection
session
SimpleXML
soap
sockets
SPL
sqlite3
standard
tidy
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlrpc
xmlwriter
xsl
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]
the ionCube PHP Loader (enabled) + Intrusion Protection from ioncube24.com (unconfigured)

[carlwhat]

people,
#1 - good job at finding this bug. pretty clear that this was a ZC bug.
#2 - also good at doing the PR. i started looking at it, but ran out of time.
#3 - this php change has been documented on previous threads in this forum. it started with php 7.1. prior to php 7.1, this would not have thrown an error. from:

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

Note: As of PHP 7.1.0, applying the empty index operator on a string throws a fatal error. Formerly, the string was silently converted to an array.

best.

[mikeel100]

people,
#1 - good job at finding this bug. pretty clear that this was a ZC bug.
#2 - also good at doing the PR. i started looking at it, but ran out of time.
#3 - this php change has been documented on previous threads in this forum. it started with php 7.1. prior to php 7.1, this would not have thrown an error. from:

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

Note: As of PHP 7.1.0, applying the empty index operator on a string throws a fatal error. Formerly, the string was silently converted to an array.

best.

So, this has wider implications...

#3 - this php change has been documented on previous threads in this forum.

Where?

Does this mean, anywhere in the zencart files were there is [$variable] = '', that they all have to be converted similarly to the fix in this thread?

Oh, thanks for the kudos and thanks for this tid-bit.

[carlwhat]

Does this mean, anywhere in the zencart files were there is [$variable] = '', that they all have to be converted similarly to the fix in this thread?

only if the $variable is an array.

1 such post:

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....07#post1341007

best.

[mikeel100]

There's something wrong with your installation, not that that's new news! I just checked a fresh ZC1.5.5f install with demo data, changed to the classic template and I'm seeing the new/specials/featured products boxes.

No there is not...read the bug report. There is / was a real bug.

Look at your subcategory and listing
pages.

[mikeel100]

only if the $variable is an array.

1 such post:

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....07#post1341007

best.

Okay, so I would not have found this in search for the issue I was having...since I didn't know what the cause was.

[mc12345678]

Okay, so I would not have found this in search for the issue I was having...since I didn't know what the cause was.

Also wouldn't be an issue for you operating on 1.5.5e/f because it was fixed in ZC 1.5.5c. (Note: The referenced post relates to operating ZC 1.5.4 (designed for up to PHP 5.6) in a PHP 7.0+ environment.)