ID: 8325
Comment by: alternateduh at hotmail dot com
Reported By: cynic at mail dot cz
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: *
PHP Version: 4.0 Latest CVS (19/12/2000)
New Comment:
Actually it is very important for us for some database and xmlrpc code
that depends on critical data types that cannot change types. As the
strings go to ints, the code later believes that the indicies are ints
instead of strings, and unfortunately sql syntaxes and xmlrpc data
types no longer match. :(
Previous Comments:
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[2004-05-19 02:31:17] papercrane at reversefold dot com
Why exactly is this important? You can still access the array fine
can't you?
$arr["8"] = 2;
echo $arr["8"];
That works fine for me.
Perhaps you have numbers longer than that that it's choking on? It
seems that if you add a 0 at the beginning, PHP will leave it as a
string.
$arr["08"] = 2;
var_dump($arr);
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[2004-05-19 02:15:11] alternateduh at hotmail dot com
Just a question... Why is this the decided upon behavior? Is there
any way to implement a flexible/variable "struct"-like data structure
with the ability to have numeric strings ("8") that aren't converted to
ints/longs? This unfortunately is now a serious issue for my company,
and I'm pulling out my hair! :( any help/advice?
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[2003-08-10 20:16:39] [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
Indexes with numerical vales (zero or positive) are casted to integer.
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[2003-02-08 12:36:42] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Related to bug #21918
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[2000-12-19 15:54:22] cynic at mail dot cz
(Actually, this is for PHP 4 versions up to 4.0.4 RC6, but it ain't in
the version list.)
I don't want to sound harsh or something, and this behavior seemed to
be accepted as feature from what I saw elsewhere in the bug database
(can't find it, though), but I think it shouldn't be that way.
Current behavior:
<?
$p = 1 ;
settype( $p , 'string' ) ;
$a = array( $p => 'aaaa' ) ;
var_dump( $a ) ;
?>
output (note: casting within the array() doesn't help):
string(1) "1"
array(1) {
[1]=>
string(4) "aaaa"
}
'Right' (YMMV) behavior:
string(1) "1"
array(1) {
["1"]=>
string(4) "aaaa"
}
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