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Doc Bug #44970 Documentation error on Object Serialization & mention of "main()"
Submitted: 2008-05-11 16:02 UTC Modified: 2008-11-05 16:58 UTC
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From: flebron at bumeran dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-05-11 16:02 UTC] flebron at bumeran dot com 
Description:
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The "Object Serialization" page at http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop.serialization.php says that when using unserialize() to revive an object, if there is no class definition for that object available at the time of unserialize()ing, the object will be of class stdClass. 
The object is actually a of class __PHP_Incomplete_Class, as reported by get_class(), Reflection and var_export().

Also, the error when using any method of an instance of __PHP_Incomplete_Class reports it's happening in "main", and links to the definition of "main" on PHP.net, which itself states this shouldn't happen.

A script to reproduce this can be found on the manual page for object serialization.

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 [2008-11-05 16:58 UTC] vrana@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 
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