volt - text_area & htmlspecialchars

[davidcorreia]

I have been testing phalcon v5 (RC1 and just now RC2) with php8.1 and i keep getting warnings like

PHP Deprecated: htmlspecialchars(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /var/www/html/cache/_var_www_html_app_views_index.volt.php on line 453

when i edit the "compiled" file what i see in line 453 is this:
<?= \Phalcon\Tag::textArea(['suggest', 'class' => 'form-control', 'style' => 'height:100px']) ?>
origin code is {{ text_area("suggest", 'class':'form-control', 'style':'height:100px') }}

after i replaced it to simple html the warnings disappeared.
Also if, Tag::setDefault('suggest', ''); is set in the controller, the warning also disappeared.

its a simple workaround, but is it the expected behavior?

[niden]

xxxx)_: Passing null to parameter #1.... will be appearing more in the near future for sure. This change for PHP 8.x will definitely show areas of the framework that we need to ensure that whatever is passed is a string and not null. In the past PHP was handling all that, casting a null to an empty string. From what I read, this will be removed in PHP 9.

You could for now use the TagFactory to create your code. The setDefaults() in Tag was always buggy, this is why we rewrote Tag.

If you don't mind, can you please open an issue so that I can add a workaround ?

[davidcorreia]

thank you, just did.