From fae4fac013e4e3369e65c34a3014cce07eb165b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Cramer <ryan@processwire.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:07:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Minor fix in InputfieldTinyMCESettings class

---
 .../InputfieldTinyMCE/InputfieldTinyMCESettings.php          | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/wire/modules/Inputfield/InputfieldTinyMCE/InputfieldTinyMCESettings.php b/wire/modules/Inputfield/InputfieldTinyMCE/InputfieldTinyMCESettings.php
index 2517fe4d..36f9e952 100644
--- a/wire/modules/Inputfield/InputfieldTinyMCE/InputfieldTinyMCESettings.php
+++ b/wire/modules/Inputfield/InputfieldTinyMCE/InputfieldTinyMCESettings.php
@@ -760,6 +760,11 @@ class InputfieldTinyMCESettings extends InputfieldTinyMCEClass {
 			if(!$inputfield->useFeature($feature)) unset($features[$key]);
 		}
 		if($inputfield->lazyMode) $features[] = "lazyMode$inputfield->lazyMode";
+	
+		// if external_plugins is empty it must be an empty object in JSON rather than array
+		if(isset($dataSettings['external_plugins']) && empty($dataSettings['external_plugins'])) {
+			$dataSettings['external_plugins'] = new \stdClass();
+		}
 		
 		$inputfield->wrapAttr('data-configName', $configName);
 		$inputfield->wrapAttr('data-settings', $this->tools()->jsonEncode($dataSettings, 'data-settings', false));