Warning: htmlspecialchars() error

**warrenthewindmill** · 12-06-2003, 02:52 PM

Code:

Warning&#58; htmlspecialchars&#40;&#41; expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /home/domains/wargamestore.com/user/htdocs/includes/functions/general.php on line 42

Line 42 says:

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return htmlspecialchars &#40;$string&#41;

I replaced with

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echo&#40;$string&#41;

to see what was being returned and it displays:

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firstnamelastnameline1ofaddressline2ofaddresscityofcustomerpostcodeArray

,

Don't know what Array is at the end of this string? Firstname, lastname etc are the details I created the test account with but the Array then all the spaces and the , really has me beat.
I searched and found a similar problem to do with country processing and I notice I do not show country anywhere on my site after the account is created.
Any ideas?

**michael_s** · 12-06-2003, 04:57 PM

It would help if you gave us some background on the mod you did to create the error. Thanks!

**warrenthewindmill** · 12-07-2003, 12:19 AM

I had installed:
http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.p...=64545&hl=
but was unable to get it working, so I replaced the modded files with my backup versions.

I won't mention the name here but after wrestling with this for 2 days I decided to try a certain well known brand of file comparison software. I ran it against a backup from about 7 days ago. Problem solved! I don't know how it happened but there was a difference in general.php line 265 which should have been:

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return $country_array&#91;'countries_name'&#93;;

but which in my later file was:

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return $country_array&#91;'my_country'&#93;;

I've checked through the code for the above mod and can find nothing that suggests this change so I cannot figure how I came to do this, but I must have. I won't ever be without file comparison software again.