[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #54877: Occasional PHP exception being thrown on WPDB/MySQLi connections

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#54877: Occasional PHP exception being thrown on WPDB/MySQLi connections
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 Reporter:  johnjamesjacoby                      |       Owner:
                                                 |  peterwilsoncc
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  6.1
Component:  Database                             |     Version:  1.5
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing early        |     Focuses:
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Comment (by nickchomey):

 I hate to re-open a discussion that was closed by a bunch of considerably
 more competent people than I. But, I'm getting various deprecation
 warnings - multiple times per page load - related to this issue when using
 PHP 8.1 on my site. I know that @jrf pointed to the php source code to say
 that the parameters should be nullable, but it doesn't seem to be the case
 in practice. It could be because I'm using lsphp rather than normal php.

 Anyway, as I described in this issue that I just opened and closed
 (https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56836), if you simply pass an
 empty string {{{""}}} rather than null, the problem goes away. Is that not
 an acceptable solution here?

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