Framework: Warning: Illegal string offset 'name'

[Antonio-Laguna]

Hi there!

It seems I found some nasty bug. I have a simple registration form which ask for name, last name, email and password (and verification)

I was testing the validation when I realized that whenever I put something into the password field, this exception arises:

Warning: Illegal string offset 'name' in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/laravel-develop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Html/FormBuilder.php line 199

This is the code of the template in that area:

    <div>
        {{ Form::label('email', 'Email', array('class' => $errors->has('email') ? 'error' : '')); }}
        {{ Form::text('email', Request::old('email'), array('class' => $errors->has('email') ? 'error' : '')); }}
        @if ($errors->has('email'))
            <small class="error">{{ $errors->first('email') }}</small>
        @endif
    </div>

    <div>
        {{ Form::label('password', 'Password', array('class' => $errors->has('password') ? 'error' : '')); }}
        {{ Form::password('password', Request::old('password'), array('class' => $errors->has('password') ? 'error' : '')); }}
        @if ($errors->has('password'))
            <small class="error">{{ $errors->first('password') }}</small>
        @endif
    </div>

    <div>
        {{ Form::label('password_confirmation', 'Password confirm', array('class' => $errors->has('password_confirmation') ? 'error' : '')); }}
        {{ Form::password('password_confirmation', Request::old('password_confirmation'), array('class' => $errors->has('password_confirmation') ? 'error' : '')); }}
        @if ($errors->has('password_confirmation'))
            <small class="error">{{ $errors->first('password_confirmation') }}</small>
        @endif
    </div>

And this is the controller:

        // Declare the rules for the form validation.
        //
        $rules = array(
            'first_name'            => 'Required',
            'last_name'             => 'Required',
            'email'                 => 'Required|Email|Unique:users',
            'password'              => 'Required|Confirmed',
            'password_confirmation' => 'Required'
        );

        // Get all the inputs.
        //
        $inputs = Input::all();

        // Validate the inputs.
        //
        $validator = Validator::make($inputs, $rules);

        // Check if the form validates with success.
        //
        if ($validator->passes())
        {
            // Create the user.
            //
            $user = new User;
            $user->first_name = Input::get('first_name');
            $user->last_name  = Input::get('last_name');
            $user->email      = Input::get('email');
            $user->password   = Hash::make(Input::get('password'));
            $user->save();

            // Redirect to the register page.
            //
            return Redirect::to('account/register')->with('success', 'Account created with success!');
        }

        // Something went wrong.
        //
        return Redirect::to('account/register')->withInput($inputs)->withErrors($validator->messages());

What could be wrong? Is there any bugs? I need to go to a previous route and then go back to this. If I just reload the page the same issue will arise.

[taylorotwell]

Never heard of anything like this happening to anyone. Do you have a
full stack trace or something? Pretty much going to be impossible for us
to figure it out with this information.

[JoostK]

Form::password does not accept flashed data (hooray!). You need to remove Input::old as second parameter, that parameter is for options, and is thus expected to be an array. You pass a string, so 'oldpassword'['name'] gives an error, obviously.

[Antonio-Laguna]

@JoostK thanks for that. I just felt like a dumb. I think that maybe the error could be more clear? Thanks again!

[JoostK]

It way be a good idea to add type hints to the options parameter, so you can only pass arrays.

[brian-lamb-software-engineer]

Wow this really helped @JoostK. I dont have a password field, and to confuse matters i have an input called name, and that wasnt the one bugging out. I also realized the Laravel output has 2 separate error messages, it shows the 2nd one first, then the 1st one on the bottom half of the page. inspecting the 2nd error message, I noticed , because of your mention, this particular in the 1st block (below the 2nd block, so wayyyyy down on the page

(1/2) ErrorExceptionIllegal string offset 'name'
--
in FormBuilder.php (line 501)
at HandleExceptions->handleError(2, 'Illegal string offset \'name\'', '/home/vagrant/code/xapp/Laravel/vendor/laravelcollective/html/src/FormBuilder.php', 501, array('name' => 'comments', 'value' => 'comments', 'options' => 'comments'))in FormBuilder.php (line 501)

Once I realized comments was a Form:textarea, based on your comment, i changed old('comment') to null, and VIOLA, error gone. Ill have to figure out a way to repopulate a textarea box.

EDIT
Ok, I had the parameters wrong, I was passing one too many args, which is what caused this to come up,
I was creating the text area like this

{{Form::textarea('comments','comments',old('comments'),
    [
      'id'=>'comments',
      'class'=>'form-control',
      'placeholder'=>'Enter Comments',
      'required'
    ])}}

But now that i removed that extra parameter, things are working as expected.

{{Form::textarea('comments', old('comments'),
    [
      'id'=>'comments',
      'class'=>'form-control',
      'placeholder'=>'Enter Comments',
      'required'
    ])}}

There should probably be an exception catch with a copious error output there, when you pass a string, stating that the parameters are passed incorrectly, otherwise this was really cryptic to catch.

[shahzadthathal]

I got this issue in Laravel version 5.6.16, whenever I do edit for existing record with image upload field it throws this error:

<div class="form-group">

        {{ Form::label('image','Uplaod Image :') }}
        {{ Form::file('image','',array('class'=>'form-control')) }}

    </div>


ErrorException (E_ERROR)
Illegal string offset 'name' (View: /var/www/html/myapp/resources/views/banner/edit.blade.php)

Full error:

/var/www/html/myapp/vendor/laravelcollective/html/src/FormBuilder.php
    {
        return $value ?: ucwords(str_replace('_', ' ', $name));
    }

    /**
     * Create a form input field.
     *
     * @param  string $type
     * @param  string $name
     * @param  string $value
     * @param  array  $options
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Support\HtmlString
     */
    public function input($type, $name, $value = null, $options = [])
    {
        $this->type = $type;

        if (! isset($options['name'])) {
            $options['name'] = $name;
        }

        // We will get the appropriate value for the given field. We will look for the
        // value in the session for the value in the old input data then we'll look
        // in the model instance if one is set. Otherwise we will just use empty.
        $id = $this->getIdAttribute($name, $options);

        if (! in_array($type, $this->skipValueTypes)) {
            $value = $this->getValueAttribute($name, $value);
        }

        // Once we have the type, value, and ID we can merge them into the rest of the
        // attributes array so we can convert them into their HTML attribute format
        // when creating the HTML element. Then, we will return the entire input.
        $merge = compact('type', 'value', 'id');

        $options = array_merge($options, $merge);

        return $this->toHtmlString('<input' . $this->html->attributes($options) . '>');
    }
Arguments
"Illegal string offset 'name' (View: /var/www/html/myapp

[Zhuk47]

@shahzadthathal Try to:

    {{ Form::file('image', array('class'=>'form-control')) }}

[nahomersom]

tnx a lot man , it works for me