From 8e197cd42a953fd69d84b3fb59b8219b1584a0a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: buckaroo-labs <46908086+buckaroo-labs@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:46:35 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] PHP 8 updates

add IF condition to avoid 'Deprecated' warning
---
 src/SemanticScuttle/Service/Tag.php | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/SemanticScuttle/Service/Tag.php b/src/SemanticScuttle/Service/Tag.php
index bd6bf70..17acae7 100644
--- a/src/SemanticScuttle/Service/Tag.php
+++ b/src/SemanticScuttle/Service/Tag.php
@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ class SemanticScuttle_Service_Tag extends SemanticScuttle_DbService
     /* normalize the input tags which could be a string or an array*/
     function normalize($tags) {
         //clean tags from strange characters
-        $tags = str_replace(array('"', '\'', '/'), "_", $tags);
+        //2023-12-20 add IF condition to avoid 'Deprecated' warning
+        if (!is_null($tags)) $tags = str_replace(array('"', '\'', '/'), "_", $tags);
 
         //normalize
         if(!is_array($tags)) {