0037237: Printing an issue having notes without text triggers PHP error

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0037237	mantisbt	printing	public	2026-06-03 08:55	2026-06-03 12:02

Reporter	dregad	Assigned To	dregad
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	assigned	Resolution	open
Product Version	2.27.0
Target Version	2.28.4

Summary	0037237: Printing an issue having notes without text triggers PHP error
Description	When executing print_all_bug_page_word.php to print an Issue that has bugnotes without text (i.e. bugnote.note = null), a PHP error is triggered: INTERNAL APPLICATION ERROR MantisMarkdown::convert(): Argument 1 ($p_string) must be of type string, null given, called in.../mantisbt/plugins/MantisCoreFormatting/MantisCoreFormatting.php on line 195 Stack trace `# Filename Line Class Type Function Args 0 .../mantisbt/plugins/MantisCoreFormatting/MantisCoreFormatting.php 195 MantisMarkdown -> convert - 1 .../mantisbt/core/event_api.php 214 MantisCoreFormattingPlugin -> formatted - 2 .../mantisbt/core/event_api.php 310 - - event_callback - 3 .../mantisbt/core/event_api.php 183 - - event_type_chain - 4 .../mantisbt/core/string_api.php 166 - - event_signal - 5 .../mantisbt/print_all_bug_page_word.php 531 - - string_display_links`
Additional Information	This is a regression introduced by commit MantisBT master 3aec6e68 (see 0034040) which introduced typed parameter on MantisMarkdown::convert()
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dregad 2026-06-03 12:02 developer ~0071219	without text (i.e. bugnote.note = null) For the record, this is not a normal situation, it happens when there is no bugnote_text record matching bugnote_text_id. We should make sure that BugnoteData::$note does not contain null - it should always be a string.