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Doc Bug #22565 max not returning a number
Submitted: 2003-03-06 00:06 UTC Modified: 2003-07-18 20:05 UTC
From: csaba at alum dot mit dot edu Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: All
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-03-06 00:06 UTC] csaba at alum dot mit dot edu 
max(array("tdCommon", 0)) => "tdCommon"    // not a number

The documentation at php.net/max claims:
If one or more of the values is a float, all the values will be treated as floats, and a float is returned. If none of the values is a float, all of them will be treated as integers, and an integer is returned. 


Evidently, the behaviour of this function was intended to change (extrapolating from http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=2676 (bug # 2676)).

This should be reflected in the documentation.  (I was trying to get the key of the most recent element I had created in a "semi-associative" array by $array[] = $newVal and max as advertised would have done the trick.  Could it still work?  I don't know, because I don't really know what it's supposed to be doing anymore.  For example, what type of sort is being done now?).

Csaba Gabor

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 [2003-07-18 20:05 UTC] philip@php.net 
The min() and max() docs have been updated (rewritten) and will show up after the next manual build.  Thanks for the report :)

http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/phpdoc/en/reference/math/functions/max.xml
http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/phpdoc/en/reference/math/functions/min.xml
 
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