php-7.4

From the docs: Coalesce equal or ??=operator is an assignment operator. If the left parameter is null, assigns the value of the right paramater to the left one. If the value is not null, nothing is done. Example: // The folloving lines are doing the same $this->request->data[‘comments’][‘user_id’] = $this->request->data[‘comments’][‘user_id’] ?? ‘value’; // Instead of repeating … Read more

Sounds like your variable isn’t set. Check with the following isset calls: isset($this->config); isset($this->config[‘backend’]); isset($this->config[‘backend’][‘api_prefix’]); You can actually check multiple vars in one isset call (isset($x, $y, $z)), but this will let you see which var specifically is missing

It’s really simple to fix the issue, however keep in mind that you should fork and commit your changes for each library you are using in their repositories to help others as well. Let’s say you have something like this in your code: $str = “test”; echo($str{0}); since PHP 7.4 curly braces method to get … Read more

This happens because $cOTLdata is not null but the index ‘char_data’ does not exist. Previous versions of PHP may have been less strict on such mistakes and silently swallowed the error / notice while 7.4 does not do this anymore. To check whether the index exists or not you can use isset(): isset($cOTLdata[‘char_data’]) Which means … Read more

Easy with PHP ?? null coalescing operator return $Row[‘Data’] ?? ‘default value’; Or you can use as such $Row[‘Data’] ??= ‘default value’; return $Row[‘Data’];