Trying to access array offset on value of type null

[houseme]

• Laravel Version: 5.7.7
• PHP Version: 7.4.0
• Database Driver & Version:

Description:

Trying to access array offset on value of type null

Steps To Reproduce:

Perform any access or execute the 'php artisan' command

[GrahamCampbell]

We'll need more information than this. Is this a fresh Laravel app. What's the stack trace?

[driesvints]

Please provide some code

[houseme]

Please provide some code

The current situation is due to access to the default home page after the PHP version has been upgraded to version 7.4.

[zecipriano]

Having the same issue. I have a model with a jsonb field that is casted to an array, like this.

protected $casts = [
     'data' => 'array',
];

In PHP 7.3, when I dump the model, 'data' is an array (as expected). In PHP 7.4, 'data' is null.

Edit: Didn't notice the Laravel version on first post. I'm on Laravel 6.5.1

[mfn]

Laravel Version: 5.7.7

It Laravel 5.7 supposed to work with PHP 7.4?

[driesvints]

I didn't catch the version here. 5.7 indeed doesn't supports PHP 7.4 and isn't maintained anymore.

Please check out our support policy on which versions we are currently supporting.

[zecipriano]

@driesvints The issue is present on 6.5.1

Edit: Please disregard this. I'm not being able to reproduce the issue on a fresh install on Laravel. The issue might be somewhere else.

[3alampro]

I'm having the same issue when using laravel 6 with php 7.4

Step to reproduce

in your controller create new instance of any model and pass it to view something like

$banner = new Banner();

return view('back.banners.create', compact('banner'));

and in your view try to use old helper something like

old('title.en', $banner->title['en'])

Workaround to use the optional helper to ignore the error produced by php 7.4

old('title.ar', optional($banner->title)['en'])

in php 7.3 this was not an issue and the code worked fine I think the old helper need adjustment for php 7.4 to work like the old behaviour

[Chrissi2812]

According to PHP-Doc this is a Backwards Incompatible Change

Array-style access of non-arrays

Trying to use values of type null, bool, int, float or resource as an array (such as $null["key"]) will now generate a notice.

[sun4sun]

some note
... /vendor/illuminate/support/ServiceProvider.php

95:    protected function loadViewsFrom($path, $namespace)
96:    {
97:    --    if (is_array($this->app->config['view']['paths'])) {
97:   ++    if (isset($this->app->config['view']) && is_array($this->app->config['view']['paths'])) {

[MuhammadTaha]

Had following configurations:

• laravel/lumen-framework 5.7
• php 7.4.2

downgrading to php 7.2 worked for me

[Yigaue]

Maybe in some case you try composer update first.

[ryancwalsh]

I didn't catch the version here. 5.7 indeed doesn't supports PHP 7.4 and isn't maintained anymore.

Please check out our support policy on which versions we are currently supporting.

I was having this same "Trying to access array offset on value of type null." problem, and it referenced /vendor/egulias/email-validator/EmailValidator/Parser/Parser.php(147): Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions->handleError().

This start happening for me after I upgraded my server to PHP 7.4.

And it was for a Laravel 5.8 (not 5.7) app. Upgrading to Laravel 6.x seemed to fix it.

[agharium]

this issue happened for me on laravel 5.8 on php 7.4. Downgrading the php to 7.3 fixed it.

[driesvints]

@agharium 5.8 doesn't supports 7.4

[agharium]

@driesvints learned it the hard way.

[jafarabbas110]

same issue
Trying to access array offset on value of type null in F:\xampp\htdocs\mlmproject\admin\join.php on line 116

[driesvints]

Hey everyone,

I'm locking this issue because it either has gone off-topic, become a dumping ground for things which shouldn't be in an issue tracker or is just too old. Please try to discuss things further on one of the below channels:

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