Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52754&edit=1
ID: 52754
Comment by: paulbc1 at hotmail dot com
Reported by: dotpointer at gmail dot com
Summary: Array keys in $_SESSION with "!" unsets the whole
array in PHP 5.3.3
Status: Bogus
Type: Bug
Package: Session related
Operating System: Slackware Linux 12
PHP Version: 5.3.3
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Today, tried the same code on a Windows server with PHP 5.2.13 and MySQL
5.0.45 installed, and I have not encountered the problem at all. I have
concluded that this bug is either limited to more recent versions of php
or MySQL, or it is limited to Linux.
In any case, I don't think this bug should be considered "bogus".
Previous Comments:
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[2011-02-13 03:12:40] paulbc1 at hotmail dot com
I see that the status for this bug is "bogus". How was that determined?
I don't think this bug is bogus at all.
I have just spent more than one week trying to debug a similar problem
with php 5 on a Linux server. The exclamation mark was in a MySQL
database, but not in the key itself. Yet it still caused the entire
$_SESSION array to be unset on the second run of the query.
Oddly, this does not always happen. For example, I ran a select query 10
times consecutively, and it failed on every attempt, except for the 4th,
7th, and 9th. That seems fairly random to me.
The same code has worked fine on php 4 on a windows server for years. So
I would like to try it on a PHP 5 windows server, to see if the problem
is Linux specific.
Has anyone else experienced the same issue?
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[2010-09-01 12:56:09] dotpointer at gmail dot com
That's fine for me. I did not know that, so I used the site name as key,
which worked fine until I updated PHP, then suddenly this happened.
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[2010-09-01 06:25:51] ahar...@php.net
I'm not too sure how or why this would have worked in 5.2, but session
variables not being able to use certain characters in their names is
documented behaviour, per http://php.net/session.examples.basic ââ:
"The keys in the $_SESSION associative array are subject to the same
limitations as regular variable names in PHP, i.e. they cannot start
with a number and must start with a letter or underscore. For more
details see the section on variables in this manual."
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[2010-08-31 21:47:10] dotpointer at gmail dot com
Description:
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Array keys in $_SESSION containing exclamation marks (!) does not seem
to work anymore as of 5.3.3.
Have tried key with different characters like #, " and £ - these
worked. Using "!" in the key seems not only to be unregistered but also
to make the whole $_SESSION to be unset in the next run.
This worked before, as in 5.2.x.
Test script:
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<?
# (as we're talking sessions, this example need to be run 2 times to
set the session data, push F5...)
session_start();
$name = 'hello'; # this does work, uncomment/comment to test
$name = 'hello!'; # this does not, uncomment/comment to test
echo $_SESSION[$name];
$_SESSION[$name] = 'OK';
?>
Expected result:
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That array keys containing exclamation marks ("!") either give a
understandable error or does work as any other key.
Actual result:
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The whole array is being totally empty if a key containing exclamation
mark is entered.
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