From 948030c5f0a7ed994d9c6cbc126c6119e701dba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob van de Vijver <bobvandevijver@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:11:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add empty input checks to fix deprecations

---
 src/Helper/Parser.php | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Helper/Parser.php b/src/Helper/Parser.php
index 30b94d8..58d5c54 100644
--- a/src/Helper/Parser.php
+++ b/src/Helper/Parser.php
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ public function __construct() {
    * @param bool        $removeGreek   If set, any greek character will be replaced by their LaTeX math equivalent (default false)
    */
   public function parseText(?string $text, bool $checkTable = true, bool $removeLatex = false, bool $parseNewLines = false, bool $removeGreek = false): string {
+    if ($text === NULL || $text === '') {
+      return '';
+    }
 
     // Try to replace HTML entities
     preg_match_all('/&[a-zA-Z]+;/iu', $text, $matches);
@@ -228,6 +231,10 @@ public function parseText(?string $text, bool $checkTable = true, bool $removeLa
    * Parse the html input and create latex code of it
    */
   public static function parseHtml(?string $text): ?string {
+    if ($text === NULL || $text === '') {
+      // BC compatible return value
+      return "\n\n";
+    }
 
     // Replace NO-BREAK-SPACE with normal space
     $text = str_replace("\xc2\xa0", ' ', $text);