What versions and operating system are you using?

OS: Max OS X Firefox: 7.0.1 Firebug: 1.8.3 FirePHP Server Library: 0.3.2 FirePHP Extension: 0.6.2

What is the problem?

When calling internally FirePHP->encodeObject, first parameter could be a resource of type 'Unknown type'. In this case, $Object would be considered as a string and its encoding checked. Passing it to mb_string_encoding raises a warning.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1.

<?php

$handle = fopen( dirname( FILE) . '/test.php', 'w' );

create a resource of type "Unknown type"

fclose( $handle );

?>

2.

<?php

error_reporting( E_ALL );

function error_handler( $code, $message, $file_name, $line ) { $exception = new Exception( $message, $code );

$firephp = FirePHP::getInstance( TRUE );
$firephp->log( $exception );

}

set a custom error handler logging raised errors as exceptions

with FirePHP

set_error_handler( 'error_handler' );

?>

3.

<?php

call a constant which doesn't exists

raising a warning / logging an exception with a resource

of type "Unknown type" around

echo TEST_;

?>

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? expected > exception log actual output > warning + exception log

Warning: mb_detect_encoding() expects parameter 1 to be string, resource given in

Warning: utf8_encode() expects parameter 1 to be string, resource given

Please provide any additional information below.

To prevent the warning from being raised, I've added to encodeObject:

<?php if ( is_resource( $Object ) || ( gettype( $Object ) === 'unknown type' ) ) { return '** '.(string)$Object.' **';