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Bug #30179 unset deletes array entries and its copied entries
Submitted: 2004-09-21 15:50 UTC Modified: 2004-09-23 14:46 UTC
From: oliver at teqneers dot de Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Arrays related
PHP Version: 4.3.8 OS: Suse 9.0
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-09-21 15:50 UTC] oliver at teqneers dot de 
Description:
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When I copy an array with a normal "=" the copy is not a real copy, but a reference to it. This only seems to happen to cascaded arrays.
When an entry of the original array is unset, the copied entry will be unset as well.

Reproduce code:
---------------
$arr	= array( 'in' => array(1,2,3) );
$copy	= $arr;

print_r($copy);
unset( $arr['in'][1] );
print_r($copy);


Expected result:
----------------
Array
(
    [in] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1
            [1] => 2
            [2] => 3
        )

)

Array
(
    [in] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1
            [1] => 2
            [2] => 3
        )

)



Actual result:
--------------
Array
(
    [in] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1
            [1] => 2
            [2] => 3
        )

)

Array
(
    [in] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1
            [2] => 3
        )

)

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 [2004-09-22 00:04 UTC] derick@php.net 
Works fine here with 4.3.6, 4.3.8, 4.3.9-dev, 5.0.1 and 5.1.0-dev.
 [2004-09-22 00:30 UTC] oliver at teqneers dot de 
This is definately no BOGUS. If you like i can send you 
screenshots or the output of the phpinfo(). You can ask 
Hartmut Holzgraefe about me. I used to work with him and 
I am programming PHP for years. This is a bug and it 
does happen everytime I execute this tiny script.
I sent in live output data.
 [2004-09-22 00:36 UTC] derick@php.net 
It still works fine here, and it works fine with every PHP version that I have on my system.
 [2004-09-22 00:42 UTC] oliver at teqneers dot de 
But is there any way I can show it to you? because it 
really happens. I haven't seen it before. I already 
tried to d/l and install the 4.3.9RC3 but had the same 
results. Is it possible, that there is a library 
dependency, which might be responsible for that? I can't 
tell the exact point of time, when it occured the first 
time, but it might happen with the last SuSE update.
 [2004-09-22 00:52 UTC] derick@php.net 
Provide a shell account? And did you compile from OUR sources, and not the Suse ones?
 [2004-09-22 00:59 UTC] oliver at teqneers dot de 
Hi,the shell account is not that easy, because it is a 
company server. But I did not use the SuSE binaries. I 
installed it from the sources. If you like, I could send 
you the compile options tomorrow? does that help?
 [2004-09-22 11:38 UTC] oliver at teqneers dot de 
Hi,

I just made the scripts available on our webserver for 
you. If you like you can look at them at:
http://teqneers.dnsalias.com/phpbug/
If made a link to every php-script with .phps, so you 
can see the source code of it.

hope this helps.
 [2004-09-22 21:20 UTC] derick@php.net 
I think it might be a problem with the Zend extensions that you loaded, please remove them from your configuration and try again.
 [2004-09-23 11:42 UTC] oliver at teqneers dot de 
You were right. It is the Zend Optimizer.
I would never thought, that a binary caching mechanism 
could cause such a problem.

Thank very much for your good and fast support!!!

Can and should I post this at Zend?
 [2004-09-23 14:46 UTC] derick@php.net 
You should post it to them. Also marking this as bogus as there is no bug in PHP.
 
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