All add-ons currently require PHP 7.4 or greater.

On July 4th 2024 PHP 8.2 will be the new minimum requirement for all add-ons. Expect any add-on released after that date to require 8.2 or greater. Some releases may not immediately take advantage of 8.x specific features in PHP, which means you might, be able to continue using new releases in PHP 7.4, however, if you experience an error the first thing you should do is update to PHP 8.2 then create a support ticket if the error persists.

Please read about the changes to BoldMinded add-on licensing.

Ticket: getInstructions() must be of the type string, null returned

Status	Resolved
Add-on / Version	Bloqs 4.11.0
Severity
EE Version	6.1.6

Jelle / Karres en Brands

Jan 04, 2022

Hi Brian,
client reported creating a landingpage (cp/publish/edit/entry/807) and when they open the entry in the cp they get the following error.
The site was recently updated from EE5.4.0 and bloqs 4.5.1 (i believe)

Return value of BoldMinded\Bloqs\Model\BlockDefinition::getInstructions() must be of the type string, null returned
user/addons/bloqs/Model/BlockDefinition.php:369

Stack Trace: Please include when reporting this error
#0 user/addons/bloqs/views/block.php(98): BoldMinded\Bloqs\Model\BlockDefinition->getInstructions()
#1 ee/ExpressionEngine/Service/View/View.php(137): include(’...’)
#2 ee/ExpressionEngine/Service/View/View.php(106): ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View->parse(’...’, Array)
#3 ee/ExpressionEngine/Service/View/View.php(165): ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View->render(Array)
#4 user/addons/bloqs/views/editor.php(48): ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View->embed(Object(ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View), Array)
#5 ee/ExpressionEngine/Service/View/View.php(137): include(’...’)
#6 ee/ExpressionEngine/Service/View/View.php(106): ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View->parse(’...’, Array)
#7 user/addons/bloqs/ft.bloqs.php(345): ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View->render(Array)
#8 ee/legacy/fieldtypes/EE_Fieldtype.php(320): Bloqs_ft->display_field(’

Elektrische…’) #9 ee/legacy/libraries/api/Api_channel_fields.php(377): EE_Fieldtype->display_publish_field(’

Elektrische…’) #10 ee/ExpressionEngine/Model/Content/FieldFacade.php(250): Api_channel_fields->apply(‘display_publish…’, Array) #11 ee/ExpressionEngine/Model/Content/Display/FieldDisplay.php(70): ExpressionEngine\Model\Content\FieldFacade->getForm() #12 ee/ExpressionEngine/View/publish/partials/publish_form.php(104): ExpressionEngine\Model\Content\Display\FieldDisplay->getForm() #13 ee/ExpressionEngine/Service/View/View.php(137): include(’...’) #14 ee/ExpressionEngine/Service/View/View.php(106): ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View->parse(’...’, Array) #15 ee/ExpressionEngine/Service/View/View.php(165): ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View->render(Array) #16 ee/ExpressionEngine/View/publish/entry.php(5): ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View->embed(Object(ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View)) #17 ee/ExpressionEngine/Service/View/View.php(137): include(’...’) #18 ee/ExpressionEngine/Service/View/View.php(106): ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View->parse(’...’, Array) #19 ee/legacy/libraries/View.php(40): ExpressionEngine\Service\View\View->render(Array) #20 ee/legacy/libraries/Cp.php(339): View->render(‘publish/entry’, Array, false) #21 ee/ExpressionEngine/Controller/Publish/Edit.php(527): Cp->render(‘publish/entry’, Array) #22 [internal function]: ExpressionEngine\Controller\Publish\Edit->entry(‘807’) #23 ee/ExpressionEngine/Core/Core.php(255): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #24 ee/ExpressionEngine/Core/Core.php(111): ExpressionEngine\Core\Core->runController(Array) #25 ee/ExpressionEngine/Boot/boot.php(161): ExpressionEngine\Core\Core->run(Object(ExpressionEngine\Core\Request)) #26 public_html/_edit.php(153): require_once(’...’) #26 public_html/_edit.php(153): require_once(’...’)

BoldMinded (Brian)

Comment has been marked private.

Jelle / Karres en Brands

that did the trick!