[PHP 8 Fatal Error]

I think this fixes it? testing now... how does this look?

function orderByDate($items) {
    $referenceArray = array();
    for ($i = 0; $i < (is_countable($items) ? count($items) : 0); $i++) {
        $referenceArray[] = strtotime($items[$i]['pubDate']);
    }
    array_multisort($referenceArray, SORT_DESC, $items);
    return $items;
}

 

[PHP 8 Fatal Error]

Hello, I’m getting a fatal error when upgrading from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8:  Uncaught TypeError: count(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type Countable|array, null given in...

on the following count line.

 

function orderByDate($items) {
    //$tempDate = strtotime($item);
    $referenceArray = array();
    for ($i = 0; $i < count($items); $i++) {
        $referenceArray[] = strtotime($items[$i]['pubDate']);
    }
    array_multisort($referenceArray, SORT_DESC, $items);
    return $items;
}

 

Anyone know how to resolve this?