Drupal 5.20 running on server with PHP 5.3, menu.inc error and WSOD settings pages

By ursika on 17 Mar 2010 at 10:07 UTC

I am using Drupal 5.20 and recently our server upgraded to PHP 5.3. I ran the PHP 5.3. compatibility patch, but I can still not solve two things:

1. warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given in .../includes/menu.inc on line 418.

2. I am not able to see the settings of certain modules, for example OG User Roles, Advanced front page... when I click on the settings page I get a blank page, WSOD. Did you come across similar problems?

Appreciate any hints!

Comments

I am still getting an error

ursika commented 17 March 2010 at 13:10

I am still getting an error form menu.inc line 415.

I get this problem on many different admin settings pages, usually very random, in some cases once I refresh the page the error is gone, but in other cases I get WSOD. Here are some pages that returned this error:

admin/settings/site-maintenance
admin/user/invite
admin/settings/front
admin/og/og_user_roles

In the last 2 cases I get a WSOD, but in the first two I just get a warning message that disappears after refresh. The code that returns error comes from call_user_func_array in this part of the code in menu.inc:

$arguments = isset($menu['callbacks'][$path]['callback arguments']) ? $menu['callbacks'][$path]['callback arguments'] : array();

$arg = substr($_GET['q'], strlen($path) + 1);

if (strlen($arg)) {
$arguments = array_merge($arguments, explode('/', $arg));
}

return call_user_func_array($menu['callbacks'][$path]['callback'], $arguments);

I have tried adding & to $arguments, I also used typecasting (array) before the $arguments, since the behavior of array_merge() was modified in PHP 5. Unlike PHP 4, array_merge() only accepts parameters of type array. But none of that helped.

Fix

andrewfn commented 23 April 2010 at 18:21

Here is a quick and dirty fix to the problem. (Actually it it not dirty, but it is fixing the problem in Drupal core when it is really a problem in some of the contrib modules.)
At line 414 in includes/menu.inc add the extra line that contains the comment:

  if (strlen($arg)) {
    $arguments = array_merge($arguments, explode('/', $arg));
  }
  if ( is_string($arguments) ) $arguments = array($arguments); //clean up bad argument array
  return call_user_func_array($menu['callbacks'][$path]['callback'], $arguments);
}

Thank you, no more WSOD!

ressa commented 17 October 2011 at 15:01

Thank you, no more WSOD!

thanks for this

sheanhoxie

Oceanside, CA

commented 13 December 2012 at 22:26

thanks for this

Upgraded to php 5.3

astra commented 15 May 2013 at 08:56

My site D5 got the same problem after upgrading to php5.3:

warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given in .../includes/menu.inc on line 418.

Replace the lines in includes/menu.inc

  if (strlen($arg)) {
    $arguments = array_merge($arguments, explode('/', $arg));
  }
  return call_user_func_array($menu['callbacks'][$path]['callback'], $arguments);

with followings

  if (strlen($arg)) {
    $arguments = array_merge($arguments, explode('/', $arg));
  }
  if ( is_string($arguments) ) $arguments = array($arguments); //clean up bad argument array
  return call_user_func_array($menu['callbacks'][$path]['callback'], $arguments);

It seems to fix this problem.

By the way , this solution also has another problem fixed: the blank node page from the Workflow module can show up again.