php.net |  support |  documentation |  report a bug |  advanced search |  search howto |  statistics |  random bug |  login
Bug #55373 Unexpected behavior involving conditions.
Submitted: 2011-08-06 01:44 UTC Modified: 2011-08-06 02:25 UTC
From: computerboy0 at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: OS X 10.5.8 (Irrelevant)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
View Developer Edit
Welcome! If you don't have a Git account, you can't do anything here.
If you reported this bug, you can edit this bug over here.
(description)
Block user comment
Status: Assign to:
Package:
Bug Type:
Summary:
From: computerboy0 at gmail dot com
New email:
PHP Version: OS:

 

 [2011-08-06 01:44 UTC] computerboy0 at gmail dot com
Description:
------------
Using IF or WHILE statements (possibly others?), the code below produces 
unexpected results.

Test script:
---------------

//Set a variable with an initial value.
$TEST="Initial";

//Set the variable to a different value, then test for it.
if($TEST="Secondary" && $TEST==="Secondary") echo "Expected result occurred.";

else echo "Expectation FAIL";

//During the ($TEST==="Secondary") condition, $TEST should match "Secondary", having just been set to "Secondary".  Instead, there $TEST is actually still "Initial".

echo "\n".$TEST;

Expected result:
----------------
$TEST should be set to "Secondary" within the IF statement and then reflect that 
within said IF statement. It does not seem to.

Script result:

Expected result occurred.
Secondary

Actual result:
--------------
What actually happens is that $TEST only becomes "Secondart" *after* the entire IF 
statement has processed.  So any following comparison with $TEST still yields its 
initial value.

Script result:

Expectation FAIL
Secondary

Patches

Pull Requests

History

AllCommentsChangesGit/SVN commitsRelated reports
 [2011-08-06 02:25 UTC] arpad@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2011-08-06 02:25 UTC] arpad@php.net
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

Please see http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.precedence.php

&& has a higher precedence than = so the result of that expression is correctly false.
 
PHP Copyright © 2001-2025 The PHP Group
All rights reserved.
Last updated: Wed Sep 10 22:00:01 2025 UTC