From:             avarab at gmail dot com
Operating system: GNU/Linux
PHP version:      Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type:     Documentation problem
Bug description:  Acc. to the manual exif_read_data() should always return an 
array, it doesn't

Description:
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The prototype given for exif_read_data() at
http://www.php.net/exif_read_data is:

array exif_read_data ( string filename [, string sections [, bool arrays
[, bool thumbnail]]] )

According to this prototype the function should always return an array,
yet it returns false when fed with invalid input:

Reproduce code:
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$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo count=1024
$ php -r "var_dump( exif_read_data( 'foo' ) );"

Warning: exif_read_data(foo): file not supported in Command line code on
line 1
bool(false)

Expected result:
----------------
The documentation should be updated to report that exif_read_data()
returns mixed (not array), array upon success, false upon failure.


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Need Reproduce Script:       http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34764&r=needscript
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Not developer issue:         http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34764&r=support
Expected behavior:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34764&r=notwrong
Not enough info:             
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34764&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:             
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34764&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34764&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued:  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34764&r=php3
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Floating point limitations:  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34764&r=float
No Zend Extensions:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34764&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34764&r=mysqlcfg

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