From 5916530a355c49bb780e5d4669bddc381f4c7264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@nodebb.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:18:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix topic creation regression caused by
 576df8421895667eb0d088a9f4c3b84df0d66d27

---
 src/topics/create.js | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/topics/create.js b/src/topics/create.js
index e85db78630..852b987ffc 100644
--- a/src/topics/create.js
+++ b/src/topics/create.js
@@ -329,7 +329,9 @@ module.exports = function (Topics) {
 
 	function check(item, min, max, minError, maxError, callback) {
 		// Trim and remove HTML (latter for composers that send in HTML, like redactor)
-		item = S(item.trim()).stripTags().s;
+		if (typeof item === 'string') {
+			item = S(item.trim()).stripTags().s;
+		}
 
 		if (!item || item.length < parseInt(min, 10)) {
 			return callback(new Error('[[error:' + minError + ', ' + min + ']]'));