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Bug #29279 echo "0"; terminates output
Submitted: 2004-07-20 13:47 UTC Modified: 2009-08-06 04:22 UTC
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From: milky at users dot sf dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 5.0.0 OS: Linux, glibc2.3
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 [2004-07-20 13:47 UTC] milky at users dot sf dot net 
Description:
------------
(Hard to reproduce.)

In one of my scripts any variant of outputting a variable set to (string) "0" ended the output. Appearantly happened for var_dump(), print_r(), echo() and print().

Initially it appeared to be a pcre problem:
$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] = "q=example&s=0&s=1&s=7";
preg_match_all('/&s=(\d+)/', $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"], $uu);
echo implode(" ", $uu[1]);

But it probably isn't. Appears that earlier parts of any of the other included scripts changed interpreter behaviour and lead to the strange effect. It seems not configuration-related or to be a general bug, as the same <?php echo "0";' ?> gives no problem in short scripts.

Only fails in CGI environment, doesn't happen on cmdline.

same effect:
- echo "0";
- echo '0';

OTH this doesn't output anything strange (binary):
- echo "1";

Not sure, if this is a bug at all. The "0" breaks also with 5rc2, 4.3.x and down to 4.1.2 (all in -cgi/fcgi incarnation)

But btw:
  echo "\000"; echo "+++";
  echo "0"; echo "...";
will correctly return the ^@+++ but nothing after that.

related to #16388 ?


Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
//...
#...
#
include("htm/head");   # contains no php code
echo "0";              # ends output

// more code follows
#... (all other code and include()s being commented out to reproduce)
?>

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 [2004-07-28 12:21 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
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 [2004-08-05 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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 [2009-08-06 03:52 UTC] ccheeboon at yahoo dot com 
to reproduce:
File: open_target.php, contain only below code:
<?php 
echo "1";
?>

File: test.php, contain the following code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php

	if( isset($_POST['remove_subscriber_form']) )
	{//if form submitted
		$u_phone =rawurlencode ( $_POST['phone'] );
		$u_shortcode = rawurlencode( $_POST['shortcode'] );
		$u_keyword = rawurlencode( $_POST['keyword'] );
		$u_timestamp = rawurlencode( $_POST['timestamp'] );		
		
		$loadurl = "http://www.mysite/";
		
		$a = fopen($loadurl."open_target.php?phone=$u_phone&shortcode=$u_shortcode&keyword=$u_keyword&timestamp=$u_timestamp","r");
		
		$tmp = "";		
		
		while( $b=fread($a,100) )
		{
			$tmp .= $b;
		}
		
		echo "affected subscriber=(".$tmp.")<br />";
			
		fclose($a);
		flush;
	
	}

?>
</body>
</html>

/////////////
upload both file to ur server.
NOTE: you have to change $loadurl to according to ur server. 
RUNNING test.php when open_target.php [echo "0";],the zero do not appear. However if target.php [echo "-1";] or other, the echo content appear.
 [2009-08-06 04:09 UTC] ccheeboon at yahoo dot com 
CORRECTION:
File: test.php, contain the following code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php

	
		$u_phone =rawurlencode ( $_POST['phone'] );
		$u_shortcode = rawurlencode( $_POST['shortcode'] );
		$u_keyword = rawurlencode( $_POST['keyword'] );
		$u_timestamp = rawurlencode( $_POST['timestamp'] );		
		
		$loadurl = "http://www.mysite/";
		
		$a =
fopen($loadurl."open_target.php?phone=$u_phone&shortcode=$u_shortcode&ke
yword=$u_keyword&timestamp=$u_timestamp","r");
		
		$tmp = "";		
		
		while( $b=fread($a,100) )
		{
			$tmp .= $b;
		}
		
		echo "affected subscriber=(".$tmp.")<br />";
			
		fclose($a);
		flush;
	
	

?>
</body>
</html>
 [2009-08-06 04:22 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
Isn't this just because you are doing:

  while($b=fread())

if fread() returns 0 that becomes while(0)

I think you mean:

  while(strlen($b=fread($a,100)))

or, the more traditional:

  while(!feof($a)) $tmp .= fread($a,100);
 
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