From: lordi at msdi dot ca Operating system: Freebsd + windows PHP version: 5.2.4 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: Invalid type casting ?
Description: ------------ Calculations on values got from a simplexml object dont work as expected. String values looking as float seems to be casted as integers Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $objXML = new SimpleXMLElement('<test x="-123.45"></test>'); //Shows correctly echo $objXML['x']."\n"; //We loose the decimals echo $objXML['x'] + $objXML['x']."\n"; //This works if we cast the amounts echo (float)$objXML['x'] + (float)$objXML['x']."\n"; //Calculated on a string, no problem echo "-123.45" + "-123.45"; ?> Expected result: ---------------- -123.45 -246.9 -246.9 -246.9 Actual result: -------------- -123.45 -246 -246.9 -246.9 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=42780&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42780&r=mysqlcfg