[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #45482: PHP 5.2.17 Bug Workaround

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#45482: PHP 5.2.17 Bug Workaround
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 Reporter:  nimce         |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:  4.9.8
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:  has-patch
  Focuses:                |
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 For WordPress installations on PHP 5.2.17,
 WordPress fails to run correctly because of a PHP bug, PHP reports this
 error:
 Backend fatal error: PHP Fatal error:  Cannot use assign-op operators with
 overloaded objects nor string offsets in /wp-includes/functions.php on
 line 3346

 Those lines are causing the problems:
 $mce_init['plugins'] .= ',directionality';
 $mce_init['toolbar1'] .= ',ltr';

 Changing those lines to:
 $mce_init['plugins'] = $mce_init['plugins'] . ',directionality';
 $mce_init['toolbar1'] = $mce_init['toolbar1'] . ',ltr';

 Respectively, fixes the issues for this PHP version.
 It is a PHP 5.2 bug, but the workaround fixes the issue for PHP 5.2, and
 it doesn't affect newer versions of PHP, perhaps consider to change those
 2 lines in the next release?

 Thanks

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/45482>
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