Issue #1975442 by thedavidmeister, dcam: Fixed drupal_render() should always return a string.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/includes/common.inc b/includes/common.inc
index d2a36be2b..262e1c57b 100644
--- a/includes/common.inc
+++ b/includes/common.inc
@@ -5795,23 +5795,23 @@ function drupal_render_page($page) {
  * array to be rendered independently and prevents them from being rendered
  * more than once on subsequent calls to drupal_render() (e.g., as part of a
  * larger array). If the same array or array element is passed more than once
- * to drupal_render(), it simply returns a NULL value.
+ * to drupal_render(), it simply returns an empty string.
  *
- * @param $elements
+ * @param array $elements
  *   The structured array describing the data to be rendered.
  *
- * @return
+ * @return string
  *   The rendered HTML.
  */
 function drupal_render(&$elements) {
   // Early-return nothing if user does not have access.
   if (empty($elements) || (isset($elements['#access']) && !$elements['#access'])) {
-    return;
+    return '';
   }
 
   // Do not print elements twice.
   if (!empty($elements['#printed'])) {
-    return;
+    return '';
   }
 
   // Try to fetch the element's markup from cache and return.
@@ -5847,7 +5847,7 @@ function drupal_render(&$elements) {
 
   // Allow #pre_render to abort rendering.
   if (!empty($elements['#printed'])) {
-    return;
+    return '';
   }
 
   // Get the children of the element, sorted by weight.