Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated while using {PAGENO}

[neerajrajendran]

I found this bug

While using {PAGENO} and {nb} , I am getting this error "Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated"

This is mPDF and PHP version and environment (server/fpm/cli etc) I am using

mPDF = 8.0^ PHP version = 7.4.22 server = linux

This is the PHP code snippet I use

<?php

$mpdf->SetHTMLFooter('<div class="footer"> page: {PAGENO}/{nb}</div>');

How do I solve this without changing the PHP version.

Thank you

[finwe]

Unable to reproduce. Provide example code that actually reproduces this issue.

[finwe]

Make sure your mPDF version is >= v8.0.4, PHP 7.4 is not supported before that.

[neerajrajendran]

Is there any alternate way of putting page number on SetHTMLFooter method, instead of using {PAGENO}

[finwe]

If you found an notice/warning/error in mPDF, help reproduce it and fix it. If you have a general question/troubleshooting, adhere to contribution guidelines.

[neerajrajendran]

my mPDF version is 8.0.11 still its not working!

[finwe]

Unable to reproduce. Provide example code that actually reproduces this issue.

[neerajrajendran]

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$mpdf = new \Mpdf\Mpdf();

$mpdf->SetHTMLFooter('<div class="footer"> page: {PAGENO}/{nb}</div>');

$mpdf->WriteHTML('<h1 class="header">Page Title</h1>');

$mpdf->Output();

[finwe]

No, still works correctly.

[neerajrajendran]

This doesn't works with php 7.4.22. other versions this works fine.

[finwe]

No, I just generated the PDF with your code with PHP 7.4.22. Repeating "doesn't works" is not helpful, provide more information. You can start with the stack trace of the error.

[mtangoo]

https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration74.deprecated.php#migration74.deprecated.core.array-string-access-curly-brace

I think it is dropped in some upper version or something. Today I hit this snag and couldn't believe to find this:

$this->bodyBackgroundColor{0} == 5

Never knew even that it was part of the language

[mtangoo]

I Fixed the error until it generated the PDF. do not have time to sort things and make PR. Whoever can ATM, here is the zip of src MPDF-src.zip

[rafasashi]

since PHP 7.4 curly braces method for accessing array elements has been deprecated, so change the bellow syntax :

$this->bodyBackgroundColor{0}

into to this:

$this->bodyBackgroundColor[0]

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_curly_braces_array_access

[lagraviereScience]

The problem is simple: PHP 8.0 and further do not accept curly braces to access array and strings: it's been deprecated.

So, either switch a former version of PHP Or, search and replace all arrays and strings accessed with curly braces