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  2. MDL-74886

Cast both value and units to int for configduration write_setting

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      The duration config type takes two values, a value and a unit.

      The unit is generally always something that can be cast to int.

      However, the value, which is provided by the user - might not be. If no value is entered, or a value which does not cast to an int - then php performs a string*string operation instead of int*int.

      For php before php8 - this simply resulted in a Warning - and the default validation was able to confirm it wasn't set correctly and prompt the user for a better value.

      From php8 however, string*string opts now raise a TypeError exception - so the user instead sees "Exception - Unsupported operand types: string * string".

       

      The fix for this is rather trivial - rather casting the result of u * v to an int, cast each value separately to an int before multiplying them.

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            aolley Adam Olley
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            Jun Pataleta Jun Pataleta
            John Edward Pedregosa John Edward Pedregosa
            David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo
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              11/Jul/22

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