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Bug #74327 foreach: wrong typecasting breaks strict mode
Submitted: 2017-03-28 13:37 UTC Modified: 2017-03-28 14:08 UTC
From: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Arrays related
PHP Version: 7.1.3 OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2017-03-28 13:37 UTC] spam2 at rhsoft dot net 
Description:
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[harry@rh:/downloads]$ php test.php
Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Argument 1 passed to test() must be of the type string, integer given, called in /mnt/data/downloads/test.php on line 11 and defined in /mnt/data/downloads/test.php:13
Stack trace:
#0 /mnt/data/downloads/test.php(11): test(1, 'c')
#1 {main}
  thrown in /mnt/data/downloads/test.php on line 13
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why in the world is the array-key silently cased to an integer - if that would have been the intention the code would be 1=>'c' instead '1'=>'c'

besides that this breaks strict mode that conversion are useless cpy-cycles

Test script:
---------------
[harry@rh:/downloads]$ cat test.php
<?php declare(strict_types=1);
$arr =
[
 'a' => 'a',
 'b' => 'b',
 '1' => 'c',
 '2' => 'd'
];
foreach($arr as $key=>$value)
{
 test($key, $value);
}
function test(string $a, string $b)
{

}

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 [2017-03-28 13:43 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2017-03-28 13:43 UTC] requinix@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

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php
> Strings containing valid integers will be cast to the integer type. E.g. the key
> "8" will actually be stored under 8.

Having [1] and ["1"] be distinct would create chaos.
 [2017-03-28 13:47 UTC] spam2 at rhsoft dot net 
"Strings containing valid integers will be cast to the integer type" - yeah that was written BEFORE strict-types existed but don't make any sense in a file which starts with <?php declare(strict_types=1); and calls functions as in my example - that error happend in the real world while step-by-step change a whole application to strict-typing
 [2017-03-28 13:48 UTC] spam2 at rhsoft dot net 
any by all respect it's idiotic that you cast something which is a string by intention to a integer and force me to do another explicit cast back to string

foreach($password_references as $version=>$hash)
{
 $generated = $cl_api->user_db->generate_password_hash('autotest_pwd', (string)$version);
 [2017-03-28 14:08 UTC] bwoebi@php.net 
That's how arrays always worked, one just never really noticed due to us not having a strict mode … [I'm not going to discuss here whether the strict mode was a bad idea …]
Just don't use strict mode then.
 [2017-03-28 14:08 UTC] kelunik@php.net 
All numeric array keys are automatically casted to integers, unfortunately.
 
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