ID: 21820
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Status: Verified
+Status: Critical
Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.3.0
New Comment:
Marking as critical. This is a serious bug as it's subtle and confuses
newbies, especially when they/we try to use autoglobals in strings.
This bug fix really needs to make it into 4.3.1
Previous Comments:
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[2003-01-22 20:28:56] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This bug appeared in 4.3.0 as a result of the lexer changes
added to ZE1 and ZE2 in november to speed up
variableinterpolation in strings.
Previous to 4.3 this was valid:
echo "$a[b]";
but
echo "$a['b']"; generated a parse error.
The bug manifests itself by turning this parse error into a
non-sensical E_NOTICE error.
The patch 'fixes' the bug by making
echo "$a['b']";
work, which has been a pending feature request and seems
nice (to me), or at least harmless.
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[2003-01-22 19:53:20] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone remember in what version of PHP this did work? :)
Correct (?) way to do this is:
<?php
$arr = array('foo' => 'bar');
print "{$arr['foo']}";
?>
Or at least I've started to use that just because of this bug.
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[2003-01-22 13:56:01] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Point was, maybe there is a reason this was not implemented.
And btw, this is a bug as 'foo' is defined yet the error says it's
not.
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[2003-01-22 13:45:54] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
this patch fixes that feature request/bug as well
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[2003-01-22 13:43:05] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Allowing it would be nice but this topic has come up many times. Not
sure why it's not been implemented though, maybe there are reasons? I
forget them.
One feature request for this:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15677
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