ID: 25640
User updated by: tater at potatoe dot com
Reported By: tater at potatoe dot com
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: XML related
Operating System: *
PHP Version: 5*
Assigned To: sterling
New Comment:
This bug was not "bogus" - assignments did not work, nor did printing.
There now seems to be some implicit string conversions that fix that.
Which is fine, I guess.
It's still very odd, at the least, that a property access returns an
empty object. Nothing else works like this. If it's intentional, it's a
very peculiar and questionable intention.
Run this code:
<?php
$xml = '<wrapper><foo>s1</foo><bar>s2</bar><bar>s3</bar></wrapper>';
$t = simplexml_load_string($xml);
$x = new stdClass;
$x->foo = 's1';
$x->bar = array('s2','s3');
var_dump($t,$t->foo,$t->bar);
var_dump($x,$x->foo,$x->bar);
?>
and you really think the results are "fine"?? Whatever.
That word, "bogus", is like pissing on the people entering bugs. (Ask a
native English speaker what they would think you meant if you called
something they did "bogus".) If you'd rather just have a broken
product, then why allow bug entries at all?
Previous Comments:
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[2004-01-08 14:55:40] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
A property access returns the element (as an object).
Using __tostring() or conversion by (string) returns the text content.
If an element contains multiple elements of the same name then
accessing those by proeprty returns an array of eleemnt objects. So all
is fine.
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[2003-12-16 08:52:10] tim at timcrider dot com
I have been able to produce a similar problem, but I'm not sure if it's
exactly the same bug or a variant of this one.
-----[ XML Field ]-----
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<test>
<fields>
<myField>a</myField>
<myField>b</myField>
<myField>c</myField>
</fields>
</test>
-----[ Script ]-----
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?php
$sx = simplexml_load_file("_example.xml");
print_r($sx);
for ($i = 0; $i < count($sx->fields->myField); $i++)
{
$v = $sx->fields->myField[$i];
print "True Value: {$v}\n";
$tmp[] = $v;
$tmp2[] = "$v";
}
print "Trying to view 'tmp' array:\n\n";
print_r($tmp);
print "Trying to view 'tmp2' array:\n\n";
print_r($tmp2);
?>
-----[ Output ]-----
simplexml_element Object
(
[fields] => simplexml_element Object
(
[myField] => Array
(
[0] => a
[1] => b
[2] => c
)
)
)
True Value: a
True Value: b
True Value: c
Trying to view 'tmp' array:
Array
(
[0] => simplexml_element Object
(
)
[1] => simplexml_element Object
(
)
[2] => simplexml_element Object
(
)
)
Trying to view 'tmp2' array:
Array
(
[0] => a
[1] => b
[2] => c
)
-----[ PHP Version Info ]-----
PHP 5.0.0b2 (cli) (built: Dec 7 2003 18:04:51)
Copyright (c) 1997-2003 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.0.0-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2003 Zend Technologies
with Turck MMCache v2.4.6, Copyright (c) 2002-2003 TurckSoft, St.
Petersburg, by Dmitry Stogov
I tried the latest CVS, at the time of this posting, and it would not
build because of a mysqli compile problem.
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[2003-09-23 21:25:25] tater at potatoe dot com
Description:
------------
I guess this is related to the recent toString() stuff -
simplexml_element object properties can't be printed or
assigned, they all come out as 'Object #x'. the string
values turn into empty simplexml_element objects.
Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
$xml = '<wrapper><foo>s1</foo><bar>s2</bar><bar>s3</bar></wrapper>';
$t = simplexml_load_string($xml);
var_dump($t,$t->foo,$t->bar);
?>
Expected result:
----------------
object(simplexml_element)#1 (2) {
["foo"]=>
string(2) "s1"
["bar"]=>
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(2) "s2"
[1]=>
string(2) "s3"
}
}
string(2) "s1"
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(2) "s2"
[1]=>
string(2) "s3"
}
Actual result:
--------------
object(simplexml_element)#1 (2) {
["foo"]=>
string(2) "s1"
["bar"]=>
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(2) "s2"
[1]=>
string(2) "s3"
}
}
object(simplexml_element)#2 (0) {
}
array(2) {
[0]=>
object(simplexml_element)#3 (0) {
}
[1]=>
object(simplexml_element)#4 (0) {
}
}
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