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Bug #62769 Inconsistent notice reporting using []
Submitted: 2012-08-07 14:42 UTC Modified: 2015-06-08 20:50 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
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From: julien at palard dot fr Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Duplicate Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.4.5 OS:
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 [2012-08-07 14:42 UTC] julien at palard dot fr 
Description:
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Error reported for invalid [] access seems inconsistent :

echo NULL["bar"] -> Parse error
echo []["bar"]   -> Parse error
$foo = NULL; echo $foo["bar"] -> Fails silently
$foo = [];   echo $foo["bar"] -> Notice: Undefined index
class Bar {} ; $foo = new Bar(); echo $foo["bar"]; -> PHP Fatal error

I whish :
[]["bar"] to trigger Notice: Undefined index
NULL["bar"] to trigger something catcheable with set_error_handler
$foo = NULL; $foo["bar"] to trigger a catcheable Notice.


Test script:
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/usr/local/php-5.4.5/bin/php -r 'error_reporting(-1); echo []["bar"];'
/usr/local/php-5.4.5/bin/php -r 'error_reporting(-1); echo NULL["bar"];'
/usr/local/php-5.4.5/bin/php -r 'error_reporting(-1); $foo = NULL; $foo["bar"];'
/usr/local/php-5.4.5/bin/php -r 'error_reporting(-1); $foo = []; $foo["bar"];'
/usr/local/php-5.4.5/bin/php -r 'error_reporting(-1); class Bar {} ; $foo = new Bar(); echo $foo["bar"];'

Expected result:
----------------
At least get a Notice on :
$foo = NULL;
echo $foo["bar"];


Actual result:
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Fails silently.

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 [2012-08-08 02:36 UTC] laruence@php.net 
const array dereference is only in trunk
 [2012-08-08 07:10 UTC] julien at palard dot fr 
laruence@php.net : Nice for const array dereference :-)

But what about the point of the ticket :

$foo = NULL;
echo $foo["bar"];

that fails silently ?
 [2012-09-04 17:54 UTC] ajf at ajf dot me 
Well, according to someone in internals whose name I forgot, NULL[$anything] is 
implicitly NULL. Which I think is rather absurd, personally. I don't see why it's 
not an error.
 [2013-07-30 19:21 UTC] mike@php.net
-Package: Output Control +Package: *General Issues
 [2013-08-20 08:33 UTC] requinix@php.net 
Related To: Bug #65484
 [2014-04-28 21:28 UTC] requinix@php.net 
Related To: Bug #67149
 [2014-05-28 09:37 UTC] julien at palard dot fr 
Also :
$ php -r 'error_reporting(-1); $foo = 0; var_dump($foo["foo"]);'
NULL

Seems not right, I'd rather prefer to get, at least, a NOTICE here.
 [2015-06-08 20:50 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Duplicate -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2015-06-08 20:50 UTC] cmb@php.net 
This is a duplicate of bug #54556.
 
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