ameenross

<?php

/**
 * This is an alternative way of handling warnings from calling count() on
 * non-countables. It's just an error handler that drops the warning, and calls
 * the previous error handler for everything else (if there is one).
 */

$previous = set_error_handler(function ($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errcontext) use (&$previous) {
    // Do nothing with an E_WARNING from count.

ameenross

<?php
/**
 * Some PHP frameworks are sensitive to non-fatal PHP errors (even notices).
 * Those same frameworks are strict about other things, like typing, and only
 * use strict comparisons. On the other hand, they use count() on scalars
 * without doing a type check, and rely on the bogus return value of `1`.
 * The PHP devs considered this legacy behavior of PHP's count (to return `1`
 * for scalars) a problem, and relying on it a BUG. So in PHP 7.2, the function
 * still returns the same values, but it now triggers an E_WARNING.
 * Since those frameworks use count on scalars in various places, now PHP