diff --git a/www/configs/config.inc b/www/configs/config.inc
index 4e415f75..e74262a1 100644
--- a/www/configs/config.inc
+++ b/www/configs/config.inc
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ if (defined('DEBUG') && DEBUG == false) {
 	$DEBUG_ALL = 1;
 	$PRINT_ALL = 1;
 	$DB_DEBUG = 1;
+	$ENABLE_ERROR_HANDLING = 0;
 }
 
 // read auto loader
diff --git a/www/lib/CoreLibs/ACL/Login.inc b/www/lib/CoreLibs/ACL/Login.inc
index 22beae4a..a0cc78fd 100644
--- a/www/lib/CoreLibs/ACL/Login.inc
+++ b/www/lib/CoreLibs/ACL/Login.inc
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ class Login extends \CoreLibs\DB\IO
 	public $default_acl_list = array ();
 
 	// language
-	private $l;
+	public $l;
 
 	// METHOD: login
 	// PARAMS: db_config -> array for logging in to DB where edit_users tables are
@@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@ EOM;
 		$q .= "ip, user_agent, referer, script_name, query_string, server_name, http_host, http_accept, http_accept_charset, http_accept_encoding, session_id, ";
 		$q .= "action, action_id, action_yes, action_flag, action_menu, action_loaded, action_value, action_error) ";
 		$q .= "VALUES ('".$this->dbEscapeString($username)."', 'PASSWORD', ".(($this->euid) ? $this->euid : 'NULL').", ";
-		$q .= "NOW(), '".$this->dbEscapeString($event)."', '".$this->dbEscapeString($error)."', '".$this->dbEscapeString($data)."', '".$data_binary."', '".$this->page_name."', ";
+		$q .= "NOW(), '".$this->dbEscapeString($event)."', '".$this->dbEscapeString((string)$error)."', '".$this->dbEscapeString($data)."', '".$data_binary."', '".$this->page_name."', ";
 		foreach (array(
 			'REMOTE_ADDR', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT', 'HTTP_REFERER', 'SCRIPT_FILENAME', 'QUERY_STRING', 'SERVER_NAME', 'HTTP_HOST', 'HTTP_ACCEPT', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'
 		) as $server_code) {
diff --git a/www/lib/CoreLibs/DB/IO.inc b/www/lib/CoreLibs/DB/IO.inc
index 34a8bd4c..2dbdff8e 100644
--- a/www/lib/CoreLibs/DB/IO.inc
+++ b/www/lib/CoreLibs/DB/IO.inc
@@ -595,15 +595,18 @@ class IO extends \CoreLibs\Basic
 	// PARAMS: array from fetch_row
 	// RETURN: convert fetch_row array
 	// DESC  : if there is the 'to_encoding' var set, and the field is in the wrong encoding converts it to the target
-	private function __dbConvertEncoding(array $row): array
+	private function __dbConvertEncoding($row)
 	{
-		if ($this->to_encoding && $this->db_encoding) {
-			// go through each row and convert the encoding if needed
-			foreach ($row as $key => $value) {
-				$from_encoding = mb_detect_encoding($value);
-				// convert only if encoding doesn't match and source is not pure ASCII
-				if ($from_encoding != $this->to_encoding && $from_encoding != 'ASCII') {
-					$row[$key] = mb_convert_encoding($value, $this->to_encoding, $from_encoding);
+		// only do if array, else pass through row (can be false)
+		if (is_array($row)) {
+			if ($this->to_encoding && $this->db_encoding) {
+				// go through each row and convert the encoding if needed
+				foreach ($row as $key => $value) {
+					$from_encoding = mb_detect_encoding($value);
+					// convert only if encoding doesn't match and source is not pure ASCII
+					if ($from_encoding != $this->to_encoding && $from_encoding != 'ASCII') {
+						$row[$key] = mb_convert_encoding($value, $this->to_encoding, $from_encoding);
+					}
 				}
 			}
 		}