Consistent error

[Cardale]

I am getting a consistent error being created by users that I cannot duplicate any rational way unless I am trying to insert malicious code.

 

I did a search a few of the IPs in my error log and I believe it is a bot.  Could this error come from search bots?  My error system is catching these results and preventing any information from being displayed(I believe any input here is welcome) but I would sure hate to think I am preventing search crawlers from following my site.

 

Here is my error out of my error log.

Time: 20 Nov 09 - 4:46:20 AM (PST)
File: /var/www/index.php
Line: 275
Code: E_NOTICE
Message: Array to string conversion

[Alex]

We really can't offer much help without seeing code. Most likely it's some kind of uncaught exception that is caused by a bot being able to access some file in a way that you would not normally have anticipated.

[Cardale]

Oh sorry.  This is the line that throws the error.

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()){  
$_GET = array_map('stripslashes', $_GET);  
$_POST = array_map('stripslashes', $_POST);  
$_COOKIE = array_map('stripslashes', $_COOKIE);  
}

[Alex]

The only thing I could think of is if you have an array in the $_POST superglobal, then you'll get that error message. Like if you have a form with something like this:

 

<input type="text" name="var[]" />
<input type="text" name="var[]" />

 

Where $_POST['var'] would be an array and would throw E_NOTICE Array to string conversion when you try to run it through stripslashes()

[Cardale]

I think I understand how it is happening ... maybe, but what I don't know is if this is a malicious user or a serch crawler.  Would a search crawler attempt to insert any arrays into GET POST ?