From: mario at erphesfurt dot de Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux, glibc2.3 PHP version: 5CVS-2003-10-31 (dev) PHP Bug Type: Arrays related Bug description: (5.0.0b2) reversal of array_merge() fix for #25494
Description: ------------ see also: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25494 Hi, The array_merge() fix introduced into beta2 broke my scripts, 'cause they relied upon array_merge() to return something even if some of the passed parameters were undef. I used to merge values into my arrays that way, even if it was unclear wether there was previously data in it: $my_array = array_merge( $my_array, array( "fill_up" => "if_unset", "this" => "too", ) ); Which now doesn't work any longer. - this requires some code bloat to work around now (introducing a user-level array_merge). I don't believe the current ext/standard/array.c:php_array_merge_wrapper addresses the problem described in #25494, it now just fails and sends eventual paramaters of PHP:ewiki_merge() to hell, making it incompatible to previous versions (PHP4,beta1). Why wasn't just a warning message sufficient?! If you guys really like to change the way that PHP function was used, then you could replace E_WARNING with E_ERROR inside the array.c on line 2222 - this would be less bogus than a _warning_ message that silently kills data. mario -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=26063&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26063&r=float
