Codeigniter not showing helpful error messgaes

Codeigniter normally used to show helpful error messages but for some unknown reasons, all it shows is

    Uncaught ErrorException: htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, resource given in C:\xampp\htdocs\app\Views\errors\html\error_exception.php:182 Stack trace: #0 [internal function]: CodeIgniter\Debug\Exceptions->errorHandler(2, 'htmlspecialchar...', 'C:\\xampp\\htdocs...', 182, Array) #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\app\Views\errors\html\error_exception.php(182): htmlspecialchars(Resource id #23, 8, 'UTF-8') #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\system\Debug\Exceptions.php(299): include('C:\\xampp\\htdocs...') #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\system\Debug\Exceptions.php(172): CodeIgniter\Debug\Exceptions->render(Object(ParseError), 500) #4 [internal function]: CodeIgniter\Debug\Exceptions->exceptionHandler(Object(ParseError)) #5 {main} thrown

I have NO idea what is going on.Whether it is a parse error, synat error etc, that is all it ever shows now.Please help

Ps: this happened after installing some composer pacakages

ok well somewhere you are using:

Code:

htmlspecialchars($input,ENT_QUOTES ,'UTF-8',True);

so as you can see in the example above the first parameter passed has to be a string. Funny enough i've just been
playing with along with esc();

So say you have a form with a text input called 'title' and you get the text typed into that text box in a controller
using :

Code:

$title = $this->request->getVar('title');

well you might want to process it and change  a double quotation to " then its along the lines of:

Code:

htmlspecialchars($title,ENT_QUOTES );

Now for max info open up Logger.php located app/Config and set to 9

Make sure in .env :

CI_ENVIRONMENT = development





or if your not using that but in index.php in public
$_SERVER['CI_ENVIRONMENT'] = 'development';

Do you have the tool bar showing bottom of web page ?

image shows what error i get , tells me line 20 where i put an integer of 1

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The error is clear. You are passing a resource type as the first parameter of htmlspecialchars, which usually accepts a string. Please check the variable you are passing to the first param.

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Ok. Scrap my last comment. The error is from the built in error exception file.

Do you have somewhere in your code that you defined a constant equivalent to a resource? Something like define('STREAM', STDOUT); or define('MY_FILE', fopen('path/to/file', 'rb'));

The problem is that the file is printing all defined constants and escaping them using htmlspecialchars. But somewhere a user defined constant is set to a resource so this causes a fatal error.