From: daniel dot oconnor at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: 5.1.4 PHP Bug Type: *General Issues Bug description: "Fatal error: Cannot access empty property" unexpectedly
Description: ------------ See also: 28444 PHP gives unexpected errors when creating an object. I understand that i'm constructing an object, and some properties aren't there yet for reading; but I would have expected $this->$$date to work exactly the same as $this->date_Created... I would also have thought that declaring the class with a value in the protected member vars meant that these variables are not empty! Reproduce code: --------------- class NexusJob { protected $date_Created = ''; //dateTime protected $appointment_Date = ''; //dateTime protected $valuation_Date = ''; //dateTime protected $inspection_Date = ''; //dateTime public function __construct() { $dates = array('date_Created', 'appointment_Date', 'valuation_Date', 'inspection_Date'); foreach ($dates as $date) { $this->$$date = date(DATE_W3C); } } } $nj = new NexusJob(); Expected result: ---------------- No errors Actual result: -------------- Fatal error: Cannot access empty property -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38362&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38362&r=mysqlcfg