I am writing a new module for Joomla! 3 and I am stumped by $params->get.
I can see the values in the database within the modules table, but the following code returns nothing for every parameter that have been set, including the default parameters of module_tag, bootstrap_size, header_tag, header_class, style.
The code is:
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$params = $app->getParams();
$param = $params->get('module_tag');
When looking at the type of the variable $param, the type is retuned as NULL.
Joomla! 3.6.2
Stable PHP 5.6.18
MySQL 5.6.31