[TYPO3-core] RFC #12466: PHP-5.3 Warning: strlen() expects parameter 1 to be string

[Dan Osipov]

+1 by reading & testing

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Rupert Germann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Type: Bugfix
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=12466
> 
> Branches: Trunk
> 
> Problem:
> When running TYPO3 4.3 under PHP 5.3 the error_log is filled with 
> messages like this:
> PHP Warning: strlen() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in 
> C:\xampp\xampp\htdocs\typo3\dummy-4.2.9\typo3\classes\class.typo3ajax.php 
> line 119
> reason for this is that json encoded content is handled as array and not 
> as string.
> 
> Solution:
> use empty() to find out if $content is an empty array or empty string
> 
> 
> Info: PHP 5.2 doesn't throw a warning in this case.
> 
> 
> greets
> rupert
>