count() TypeError crashes PDF export on PHP 8
PDF generation crashes with a count() TypeError when a string is passed where an array is expected.
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3 public reports · first reported 20 February 2025 · last reported 25 December 2025
What's going wrong
Several site owners on PHP 8 report that exporting a page to PDF stops with a TypeError, saying count received a string where an array or Countable was expected.
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