From: Operating system: Linux (though it doesnt matter) PHP version: 5.3.2 Package: Scripting Engine problem Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:Perhaps there should be a way to explicitly dereference in PHP
Description: ------------ It seems that the part of PHP that is responsible for minimizing the footprint of passing around data, at least within an object, does too good of a job, and the lack of an explicit "dereference" or a forced, perhaps recursively-acting "assign by value" operator creates an issue where a programmer can not explicitly dereference the data behind that referenced value, that, for example, is being pushed into an array, would lead to an array of referenced values (with vales that would not be what you would predict them to be) So the code: MyResult is a class meant to unify access to mysqli result data access between query and prepared statement. SQL is just a couple of commands to set up the testing environment (test table). The MyTest opens a connection and tries to get the data. Query results, which are passes back the array returned from mysqli's result fetch_array function are properly dereferenced in getArray method. The prepared statement results that are passed back as $this->bind_arr are not properly dereferenced, and get added to $ret as references, resulting in the final array that is filled with both id and value filled with the latest data set in the $this->bind_arr, which leads me to believe that this is a dereferencing issue, in this case id=3 and value=val3. If you add a print_r line to the while loop, you will see that with stored procedure results, every new result is passed back, all the values are updated to that result set. Hopefully this is short enough to describe the issue, -- Alex Test script: --------------- MyResult.php http://pastebin.com/qJRWySks SQL: create table test_table (id int not null auto_increment primary key, value varchar(8)); insert into test_table (`value`) values ("val1"), ("val2"), ("val3"); MyTest.php http://pastebin.com/AV6B79Vk Expected result: ---------------- Prepared statement Array ( [0] => Array ( [id] => 1 [value] => val1 ) [1] => Array ( [id] => 2 [value] => val2 ) [2] => Array ( [id] => 3 [value] => val3 ) [3] => Query Array ( [0] => Array ( [id] => 1 [value] => val1 ) [1] => Array ( [id] => 2 [value] => val2 ) [2] => Array ( [id] => 3 [value] => val3 ) [3] => Actual result: -------------- Prepared statement Array ( [0] => Array ( [id] => 3 [value] => val3 ) [1] => Array ( [id] => 3 [value] => val3 ) [2] => Array ( [id] => 3 [value] => val3 ) [3] => ) Query Array ( [0] => Array ( [id] => 1 [value] => val1 ) [1] => Array ( [id] => 2 [value] => val2 ) [2] => Array ( [id] => 3 [value] => val3 ) [3] => -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51327&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51327&r=mysqlcfg
