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Bug #13588 Crash when making a normal string to an array
Submitted: 2001-10-07 16:39 UTC Modified: 2002-06-04 10:25 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 2.0
Reproduced:1 of 2 (50.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: roelkw at xs4all dot nl Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.0.6 OS: WinXP build 2600 (final)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-10-07 16:39 UTC] roelkw at xs4all dot nl 
When you create a variable and make it a string, like this:

$test = "hey";

and later on I change this to an array, like this:

$i++;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) {
  $test[$i]["id"] = $row["id"];
  $test[$i]["name"] = $row["name"];
  $i++;
}

Then PHP/Apache crashes on this line:
  $test[$i]["name"] = $row["name"];
If I comment that line out, there's no crash!

Weird, isn't it?

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 [2002-06-04 04:59 UTC] edink@php.net 
Cannot reproduce this on PHP 4.2.1. Please try the new version and reopen if the problem is still there.
 [2002-06-04 06:18 UTC] roelkw at xs4all dot nl 
Now it works for me too, but with an old version it produced this error. Why does it take such a long time before I recieve an answer?
 [2002-06-04 06:32 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
> Why does it take such a long time before I recieve an answer?

Because we're all volunteers, no one gets paid, everyone has a real job, etc. Welcome to opensource.
 [2002-06-04 10:17 UTC] roelkw at xs4all dot nl 
I know it's open source and I really do understand it can take a litte bit of time to answer, but this has taken 8 months.. I think that's a bit too long. I really appreciate your work and I use it a lot, but I think this is really too long.
 [2002-06-04 10:25 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
Then I'm sad that you've to realize that it plain isn't too long. We have had reports taking longer then this to get responses and there are even quite a few reports open with issues which are much older then yours. In a community where no one has a contract to work on something, people 'can' gome and go and in worst cases reports never get processed. It's just a fact, in the opensource world there's nothing like "this is really too long".
 
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