Creating default object from empty value

[marktopper]

Hi @ChristopherDay.

There are warnings in the Installer, using the current master branch and are on PHP 7.4.1.

[uaktags]

Issue not present for me with PHP7.1

[agscs]

This will be a big problem on the upcoming php 8 so we need to get this fixed now as now most host's use php 8 as the default