ID: 40828
User updated by: phpbugs at thequod dot de
Reported By: phpbugs at thequod dot de
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Arrays related
Operating System: Ubuntu Linux
PHP Version: 5CVS-2007-03-15 (CVS)
New Comment:
>>Can't PHP internally do "$this->test = array()"?
>No, it can't do your job for you. You have to do it in the __get()
method.
1. It also won't work with
function &__get($name)
{
echo "__get() called.\n";
$r = array();
return $r;
}
2. It would not make sense to init any unknown/unhandled property
as "array()" anyway
3. Your comment works, if you remove the "(array)" typecast in
&__get() - it will cause "Only variable references should be
returned by reference" otherwise
4. I'm not looking for support, but state that "$this->foo[]" is not
supported in overloading - in contrast what you would expect
Please note that this is different from bug 40823, where _any_
property (which goes through __get()) gets handled as Foo::array!
What I want to work is:
Only handle some members as overloaded properties (e.g. $foo and
$bar), but let all others work as intended - and that
means "$A->foobar[]=" should work, just like "$foobar[]=" does.
Please make sure you really understand what the problem IMHO is
here!
At least this should get closed as "Wont fix" and documented on
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php.
See also
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php#73512
Previous Comments:
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[2007-03-15 19:45:15] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please, if you have any other _questions_ - ask them on a support
forum.
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[2007-03-15 19:44:25] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>as Tony stated in http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40823
>(the code in his comment does not work (anymore?)).
The code in my comment works perfectly fine.
>Can't PHP internally do "$this->test = array()"?
No, it can't do your job for you. You have to do it in the __get()
method.
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[2007-03-15 19:35:49] phpbugs at thequod dot de
Description:
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If a member of an object is not defined and "gets initialized" by
PHP after/during the overloading process, a notice ("Indirect
modification of overloaded property") gets triggered when PHP has to
initialize it as an array type.
It makes no difference, if __get() returns by reference instead (a
ref to a null value), as Tony stated in
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40823 (the code in his comment does
not work (anymore?)).
Background: we have a base class "Plugin" in our project and it uses
__get() for some properties and returns null otherwise.
Now, if some user-created plugin does
$this->foo[] = 'bar'
it will create this notice - which is quite confusing (if the
derived plugin does not "init" $foo with "var $foo").
Can't PHP internally do "$this->test = array()"?
(This may likely be a dupe of http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39337 -
but that one got quite confusing, so this one here may become
a "reference bogus bug" for this issue at least.)
Reproduce code:
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<?php
class A
{
function __get($name)
{
echo "__get() called.\n";
}
function A()
{
$this->test[] = 'foo';
}
}
$A = new A();
?>
Expected result:
----------------
__get() called.
Actual result:
--------------
__get() called.
Notice: Indirect modification of overloaded property A::$test has no
effect in foo.php on line 12
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