Deprecated: in ConfirmAccount/AccountRequest

[lane_ftw]

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Deprecated: strlen(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /var/www/wiki.factorio.com/extensions/ConfirmAccount/includes/backend/UserAccountRequest.php on line 93

Requested an account, got this on https://wiki.factorio.com/Special:RequestAccount top of the page.

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[eugenekay]

This error is actually from the PHP Interpreter, regarding the use of a deprecated function in MediaWiki.

The REAL issue here is that the php.ini setting “display_errors” is apparently set to True! This is an Insecure default, since it exposes potentially sensitive information about the file system on which the Wiki is running (“/var/www/wiki.factorio.com/”, and any other Runtime error message which is not Caught by application error handling…. Since MediaWiki (and PhpBB, which is this forum itself) are not known for their bulletproof security record; this option should really be False.