Joomla 5.4.3 VM 4.4.6 php 8.4.21
Instead of thumbnails, my category pages now display this:
Deprecated: file_exists(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($filename) of type string is deprecated in /home/beqsaleshost/public_html/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/helpers/mediahandler.php on line 690
LIne 690 of mediahandler.php is
if (file_exists($file_url_thumb) and !is_dir($this->file_url) ) { // Spiros
Not sure how to proceed.
have you turned off error reporting?
Do you see loss of function?
site still working. biotechequipmentsales.com
Product pages are OK.
But the deprecated file_exists() Passing null error appears in many places.
I found this and it fixed the appearance problem: Now an icon does appear, not a correct one, but a placeholder at least and not an error message:
he quick fix in most cases is to use the null coalescing operator to provide a default value as appropriate, so you don't need a long null check around every use. For instance, htmlspecialchars($something) can be replaced with htmlspecialchars($something ?? '')
that worked on line 690 of mediahandler.php in the file: administrator/components/com_virtuemart/helpers/mediahandler.php