From:             smh at wannafind dot dk
Operating system: Linux 2.6.24.3-50.fc8
PHP version:      5.2.9
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  Confusing behavior

Description:
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Requesting a string index on a string type using the string as an array
always returns first character position in string.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
$input = '386';
echo $input . " / " . $input['tessrthwsrtht'] . "\n";
?>

Expected result:
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PHP should generate an error when this occurs, because this situation
occurs when you think a method/function returns a string indexed array but
really just returns a string.
In this situation you get some data, but the data is incorrect and this
can be very confusing to debug.

Actual result:
--------------
PHP casts the string index to an integer with the value: 0 and returns the
first character in the string.

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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=48142&edit=1
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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2):        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=trysnapshot52
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3):        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=trysnapshot53
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0):        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS:                        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in CVS and need be documented: 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:                      
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:               
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=needscript
Try newer version:                   
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:                 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=support
Expected behavior:                   
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48142&r=mysqlcfg

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