ID:               33553
 Updated by:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reported By:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Status:           Open
-Bug Type:         Unknown/Other Function
+Bug Type:         Documentation problem
 Operating System: Linux
 PHP Version:      4.3.10
 New Comment:

You surely mean slash here, and not ampersand? Anyway, this is not a
PHP bug but a documentation issue.


Previous Comments:
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[2005-07-03 17:09:54] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Description:
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get_html_translation_table() returns an array with two keys having
value "'" (the ampersand). When array_flip()-ed, as suggested by the
manual, the second one overwrites the first, thus giving a reverse
table with only one ampersand key. Using this reverse table to convert
back a string is not possible, since the original table had the other
representation of the ampersand first, and used that for translation.

See http://lxr.php.net/source/php-src/ext/standard/html.c#466

Note that if this is not deemed to be a PHP bug, then this
irreversibility issue should be documented.

Reproduce code:
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var_dump(htmlspecialchars("'", ENT_QUOTES));
var_dump(get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS, ENT_QUOTES));
var_dump(array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS,
ENT_QUOTES)));


Expected result:
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No ambigous array elements in the translation table.

Actual result:
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Two entries for the ampersand.


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