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Bug #31026 Problem with type conversion
Submitted: 2004-12-08 20:37 UTC Modified: 2004-12-20 13:34 UTC
From: tobi at knmm dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Variables related
PHP Version: 4.3.10RC3-dev OS: Linux 2.6.8 (Debian sarge)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-12-08 20:37 UTC] tobi at knmm dot de 
Description:
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A very strange problem occurs on my webserver. If you run the provided code via http://knmm.de/bug.php a few times, in about 1 out of 10 times the second line of output is "$price is a double with value 34". This shows up randomly.
Running the script on the commandline of the same machine doesn't show this behaviour.

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Tobi

Reproduce code:
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$price = '34.90';

echo "\$price is a ".gettype($price)." with value $price\n";
settype($price,'double');
echo "\$price is a ".gettype($price)." with value $price\n";

(also available via http://knmm.de/bug.phps)

Expected result:
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$price is a string with value 34.90
$price is a double with value 34.9


Actual result:
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$price is a string with value 34.90
$price is a double with value 34

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 [2004-12-08 21:37 UTC] derick@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip
 [2004-12-18 00:52 UTC] tobi at knmm dot de 
Now, with the CVS version the script says '34,9' instead of 34.9 (with 4.3.9 it was only '34').
This solves my problem, which was that calculations with variables, type-converted from string to float had gone wrong sometimes. 
But it's still very strange.
I figured out that the problem only occurrs if the apache webserver with php on it already ran for a few hours.
 [2004-12-20 13:34 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Fixed -> closed.
 
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