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Bug #528 please ingore above - gettype() now even worse!!!
Submitted: 1998-07-09 08:53 UTC Modified: 1998-07-09 19:01 UTC
From: be at SHonline dot DE Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Misbehaving function
PHP Version: 3.0 Latest CVS OS: solaris 2.5.1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1998-07-09 08:53 UTC] be at SHonline dot DE 
Now gettype is totally inconsistent:

Now
-------
$b = array();
 
function b() { ; }
 
print gettype($b);
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retruns "array" which is perfectly correct.

But
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class A { 
 var $a = array();
 function a() { ; }
}
 
$o = new A;
print gettype($o->a);
-------

returns "user function" which is not only false, but also
inconsistent to what gettype() returns in the upper case.

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 [1998-07-09 19:01 UTC] ssb 
What you do above is to first define a property $a and
then immediately replace it to the function a().
This is a side-effect of the way classes are currently
implemented (they share the same name space, and are really
just associative arrays with sugar on top).  It is not
an inconsistency, but the parser probably ought to
croak if you replace properties this way.
 
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