Exceptions started to appear in all views, and when I try to run composer update, it always ends up with
{"error":{"type":"ErrorException","message":"array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array","file":"\/laravel\/framework\/src\/Illuminate\/Foundation\/ProviderRepository.php","line":188}}
After a lot of searching and exploring each file in the 'app' folder, it appears that one file was corrupt
Delete app/storage/meta/services.json and re-run composer update and this should solve it.
composer update because of the error. (array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array)
Sometimes only deleting app/storage/meta/services.json and run composer update doesn't solve the ERROR: array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array error. At least in my case, it didn't.
Most of the time it happens when you're screwing up the bootstrap/cache/services.json file. And running composer update will not generate services.json file.
To generate the services.json file, you need to delete the previous bootstrap/cache/services.json file and run php artisan serve. Then it'll generate a fresh services.json` file.
Hope it helps to someone!
php artisan serve gives me the same error? (array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array)
bootstrap/cache/services.json file first. Then try php artisan serve.services.json with one property with the key "providers" or something. Although Gulp still isn't versioning my files. Thanks for helping!
bootstrap/cacheI had a similar problem with a fresh install.
I solved it like this:
Removed bootstrap/cache/**services.php** and then I
surfed to the website with the browser, it generated a new services.php and then it worked.
Just a composer update worked for me.
You probably just forgot to put compact('var') as the second return view argument
return view("path.to.view", compact ('var'))
I was facing this issue, and my problem was the version of "pusher/pusher-php-server" in composer.json was not matching with my laravel version. For this reason composer-update and deleting caches were not working for me.
I thought maybe this information could help someone.
I got the same error - "array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array error". running "composer dump-autoload" followed by npm run dev solved the problem immediately. No need of updating composer, npm etc.
in my case app/storage/meta/services.json was empty for some reasson
I deleted the bootstrap/cache/services.json and ran composer update after that it worked for me
