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Bug #1533 try yourself...
Submitted: 1999-06-12 16:08 UTC Modified: 1999-06-12 16:12 UTC
From: thomas dot jarosch at styletec dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Parser error
PHP Version: 3.0.9 OS: Linux+Apache 1.3.6
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1999-06-12 16:08 UTC] thomas dot jarosch at styletec dot de 
<html>
<body>

<b><center>PHP Development zone</center></b><br>

<?
		$Configurations = array();
		$configfiles = array();
		
		$Configuration["test"] = "should be working fine.";
		$configfiles[1] = "test";
		
		echo "<b>workaround:</b> ";
		$tmp = $configfiles[1];
		echo "$configfiles[1]: $Configuration[$tmp]<br>";

		echo "<b>bug:</b> ";

		// somehow php doesn't handle the array right
		echo "$configfiles[1]: $Configuration[$configfiles[1]]<br>";
		
?>

</body>
</html>

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 [1999-06-12 16:12 UTC] rasmus at cvs dot php dot net 
This is a well-known limitation of quoted strings in PHP3.  Simply do:

echo "$configfiles[1]:". $Configuration[$configfiles[1]]."<br>";

You can only put simple things inside quoted strings to be expanded.  Once you start using nested stuff like that you need to do it outside the quoted string.
 
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