From 8cce0f1607c9153fd02cb28e901f3b0de4412eee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dion Hulse <dd32@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 01:40:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Preinitialize WP_User::$data to an object in the event an
 empty user object is created. Avoids a "Creating default object from empty
 value" PHP Warning. Fixes #28019

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@31049 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 src/wp-includes/capabilities.php | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/wp-includes/capabilities.php b/src/wp-includes/capabilities.php
index 3c665f0bd4..16148b206d 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/capabilities.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/capabilities.php
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ class WP_User {
 	 *
 	 * @since 2.0.0
 	 * @access private
-	 * @var array
+	 * @var object
 	 */
 	var $data;
 
@@ -521,13 +521,17 @@ class WP_User {
 			$id = 0;
 		}
 
-		if ( $id )
+		if ( $id ) {
 			$data = self::get_data_by( 'id', $id );
-		else
+		} else {
 			$data = self::get_data_by( 'login', $name );
+		}
 
-		if ( $data )
+		if ( $data ) {
 			$this->init( $data, $blog_id );
+		} else {
+			$this->data = new stdClass;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/**