This will 2 things:

This will 2 things:
1) The first change prevents "expensive" code in HTML::toBBcode() to be executed
   just for an empty string which makes no sense.
2) The above change was maybe flawed as $apcontact['about'] would have never
   been created, not even empty which could have side effects

Thanks to @annando to make me rethink this part of code.