* Unicode-safe str_pad with the restriction that $length is forced to be <= 500
* @param Parser $parser
* @param string $string
- * @param int $length
+ * @param string $length
* @param string $padding
* @param int $direction
* @return string
}
# The remaining length to add counts down to 0 as padding is added
- $length = min( $length, 500 ) - mb_strlen( $string );
+ $length = min( (int)$length, 500 ) - mb_strlen( $string );
+ if ( $length <= 0 ) {
+ // Nothing to add
+ return $string;
+ }
+
# $finalPadding is just $padding repeated enough times so that
# mb_strlen( $string ) + mb_strlen( $finalPadding ) == $length
$finalPadding = '';