Custom Plugin Generating Weird Error
 

First Here is the error:

After a few attempts at trying to figure out where this error is coming from I discovered that my custom text display plugin is somehow responsible for it.

I created a table and loaded some custom text in it. My plugin randomly gets a number to text comments and displays them in the side bar on my page, doesn't interact with the forums at all as far as I coded it. BUT, the error message seems to indicated that my script is somehow touching the forum search code, no idea how.

Line 607 in functions_search.php is :

The block of code where it is appears to be checking what forums are related to the query and display['forums'] appears to be empty so I am not seeing why the type assignment is not happy. My plugin code doesn't touch any of this stuff as far as I know.

Here is the block of code where the failing line is:

Anybody seen anything like this before? I would really like to understand how / why my code is affecting the search utility. At the moment I don't have a clue about it. or Why it might be. My Plugin doesn't contain ANY of the variables that are in this block of code.

I have tried my code with and without using output buffering with the same error showing up in the search utility?

try
$display = array();

HA! A classic textbook case of overlooking the "obvious" ... Thanks very much! I was looking for a much more complex solution, I wrapped it in a "if !empty" conditional and that worked too but I thought it was not the correct way to handle it. I appreciate your direction. Again, thanks much.