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Bug #27896 eval
Submitted: 2004-04-07 00:06 UTC Modified: 2004-04-07 01:23 UTC
From: jesse at erieonline dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: 4.3.5 OS: WinXP / FreeBSD
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2004-04-07 00:06 UTC] jesse at erieonline dot com
Description:
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I have a variable called $config['sold_email_winner_message'], which has an emal message template stored in the variable.  Within this email message, i have information like:

Dear $winner_info[first_name] $winner_info[last_name],

Congrates...

I use eval to evaluate the string.  One thing I noticed is that the following doesn't work

$winner_info['first_name'] $winner_info['last_name'], but $winner_info[first_name] $winner_info[last_name] does work.

One would think that these should be interchangeable.

Reproduce code:
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$winner_info = array ('first_name' => "First", 'last_name' => "Last");

This doesn't work:

$config['sold_email_winner_message'] = "Dear $winner_info['first_name'] $winner_info['last_name']";
eval ("\$config[sold_email_winner_message] = \"$config[sold_email_winner_message]\";");

This does work:
$config['sold_email_winner_message'] = "Dear $winner_info[first_name] $winner_info[last_name]";
eval ("\$config[sold_email_winner_message] = \"$config[sold_email_winner_message]\";");

Expected result:
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This will print the following:
Dear First Last

Actual result:
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This will print the following:
Dear $winner_info['first_name'] $winner_info['last_name']

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 [2004-04-07 01:23 UTC] pollita@php.net
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions. 

Thank you for your interest in PHP.


 
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