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Doc Bug #7878 intval base argument useless unless first arg is a string
Submitted: 2000-11-19 00:55 UTC Modified: 2001-06-23 13:26 UTC
From: zak@php.net Assigned: zak (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.0.3pl1 OS: Win32 and Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2000-11-19 00:55 UTC] zak@php.net
The base argument for intval has no effect unless the first argument is a string.

I am not sure what the best fix for this is:

We could document that you should make the first argument a string to have the base argument used.

We could convert the first argument to a string (using  convert_to_string_ex) if there is a second argument

That would mke calls made with base 10 would work as expected:
intval (1000, 11); // Returns 1331
intval ('1000', 11); // Returns 1331

However, calls using other bases might seem a bit odd:
intval ('077', 8); // returns 63
intval (077, 8); // returns 51

This would be because 077 is converted to 63, then the argument is converted to a string.

Or we could add a warning if the first arg is not a string?

Any thoughts??


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 [2001-05-06 11:31 UTC] derick@php.net
I guess no-one had thoughts about this. What are we going to do with this one?
 [2001-05-06 20:44 UTC] zak@php.net
In hindsight, I think that the current behavior is fine and makes sense given how PHP currently behaves.

People just need to remember that writing a number out in a different base is for their convenience - PHP sees it as its decimal equivalent and behaves appropriately.

I have assigned it to myself so that it will bug me til I get around to documenting the behavior.
 [2001-06-01 16:02 UTC] sniper@php.net
assigned then..

 [2001-06-23 13:26 UTC] zak@php.net
Finally got around to documenting this. :)
 
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