[TYPO3-dev] Several extensions do not work with 4.2/PHP 5.2.x

[Steffen Kamper]

"Michael Stucki" <michael at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1202291282.6778.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Malte Jansen wrote:
>
>> there severeal extensions, which don't work with Typo3 4.2 or PHP 5.2.x.
>> In my test-evirement it works fine with trunk. But if you are using new
>> installation, they throw errors.
>>
>> * DAM (http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=7368)
>> * t3quixplorer (http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=7374)
>>
>> So there seems to be some change in the PHP-array functions...
>>
>> I think there will be several more extension, which won't work...
>
> Yes, likely. The problem is that t3lib_div functions who work with arrays
> will now only except this type of parameter. For example, you cannot call
> t3lib_div::array_merge($param1,$param2) with an empty string as $param2. 
> It
> must explicitely be an array, so you have to force it if you're not sure:
>
> $newArray = t3lib_div::array_merge($oldArray, 
> (array)t3lib_div::_GET('xx'));
>
> I'm sure there will be some more fixes needed, however it gives us a 
> chance
> to identify a lot of unnoticed problems. I'm sure more info will follow by
> Ingo in the upcoming announcements...
>
> - michael
> -- 

Hi Michael,

i didn't digged into the changes there, but i don't understand why there is 
no casting. This is a central point and would it make more easy than 
changing all other places in core & extensions.

vg  Steffen