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Bug #47430 Errors after writing to nodeValue parameter of an absent previousSibling
Submitted: 2009-02-17 23:01 UTC Modified: 2009-03-13 13:45 UTC
From: bisyarin at ukr dot net Assigned: rrichards (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5.2CVS-2009-02-17 (snap) OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-02-17 23:01 UTC] bisyarin at ukr dot net 
Description:
------------
In one of my project's libraries I've forgot to check DOMNode's "previousSibling" property for existence by accident. I think that DOM extension should handle such situations gracefully. But after that, when I try to create an array by assigning a value to unexistent key with square bracket syntax, I get an error message:
PHP Fatal error:  Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /xxx/yyy.php on line ZZZ

Reproduce code:
---------------
$xml = '<?xml version="1.0"?><html><p><i>Hello</i></p><p><i>World!</i></p></html>';
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadXML($xml);

$elements = $dom->getElementsByTagName('i');
foreach ($elements as $i) {
  $i->previousSibling->nodeValue = '';
}

$arr[0] = 'Value';

print_r($arr);

Expected result:
----------------
Array
(
    [0] => Value
)


Actual result:
--------------
PHP Fatal error:  Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /usr/home/artem/comps/scripts/test.php on line 20

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 [2009-02-17 23:54 UTC] jani@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.2-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:

  http://windows.php.net/snapshots/
 [2009-02-18 00:39 UTC] bisyarin at ukr dot net 
I've tried PHP 5.2.9RC3-dev on windows and FreeBSD and still the same.

Output from my win-machine:
version:
PHP 5.2.9RC3-dev (cli) (built: Feb 17 2009 23:39:59) 

Error message:
PHP Fatal error:  Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in D:\artem\phpDOMBagTest.php on line 19

Output from my FreeBSD machine:
version:
PHP 5.2.9RC3-dev (cli) (built: Feb 18 2009 02:14:56)

Error message:
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /usr/home/artem/comps/scripts/phpDOMBagTest.php on line 19
 [2009-02-18 23:47 UTC] felipe@php.net 
I can reproduce it using 5.3CVS.
 [2009-02-20 23:48 UTC] felipe@php.net 
The problem is the 'retval = EG(uninitialized_zval_ptr);' in dom_read_property(), I guess that maybe would be more suitable throw an E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR there.

Assigned to maintainer.
 [2009-03-13 13:45 UTC] rrichards@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
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