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Bug #13 Indirect vars don't work anymore
Submitted: 1998-01-27 04:53 UTC Modified: 1998-01-27 11:14 UTC
From: jan at nrw dot net Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Parser error
PHP Version: 3.0b3 OS: BSDI2.1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1998-01-27 04:53 UTC] jan at nrw dot net 
The following works under php2, but fails under php3:

$a="b";
$b="Test!!";
echo "$$a";

Php3 says: "$b";
Php2 says: "Test!!";

This breaks nearly all my apps... :-/

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 [1998-01-27 11:14 UTC] rasmus 
Not really a bug.  More like a change in behaviour.  The string embedded
variable handling in PHP3 only handles simple cases.  The way around
the problem is to use: echo "normal string stuff ".$$var." more string stuff";

We will however consider this report a "request for feature" ;)
 
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