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#59757 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)

Function wp_normalize_path() is causing a deprecated error when $path is null.

Reported by: garymarkfuller's profile garymarkfuller Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 6.3.2
Component: General Keywords: php81
Focuses: Cc:

Description (last modified by sabernhardt)

The function wp_normalize_path() is causing the error below on my test environment:

PHP Deprecated: str_replace(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($subject) of type array|string is deprecated in /.../wp-includes/functions.php on line 2182

Locally I altered the function to resolve the error as per the code below:

function wp_normalize_path( $path ) {
	$wrapper = '';
	if(!empty($path)) {
		if ( wp_is_stream( $path ) ) {
			list( $wrapper, $path ) = explode( '://', $path, 2 );

			$wrapper .= '://';
		}

		// Standardize all paths to use '/'.
		$path = str_replace( '\\', '/', $path );

		// Replace multiple slashes down to a singular, allowing for network shares having two slashes.
		$path = preg_replace( '|(?<=.)/+|', '/', $path );

		// Windows paths should uppercase the drive letter.
		if ( ':' === substr( $path, 1, 1 ) ) {
			$path = ucfirst( $path );
		}
	}
	return $wrapper . $path;
}

Change History (2)

#1 @jrf
13 months ago

  • Focuses php-compatibility removed
  • Keywords php81 added

@garymarkfuller Thanks for reporting this. This issue will need a backtrace to figure out where the error is coming from.

The wp_normalize_path() function is documented as only accepting a string and the error you are reporting means something somewhere is passing null to wp_normalize_path(). This needs to be fixed at the source of the problem, not in the wp_normalize_path() function.

#2 @sabernhardt
10 months ago

  • Description modified (diff)
  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution set to duplicate
  • Status changed from new to closed

#57580 (and #57581) had earlier reports about the deprecated warnings for wp_normalize_path() and wp_is_stream().

The four causes identified on #57580 were all plugins that had added null in the add_submenu_page() function. Those four plugins have been updated for newer PHP, but a directory search still finds many plugins doing it wrong. The problem could also be somewhere else.

If you identify the issue in a plugin, please report it to the plugin's author.

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