Within the object template, I have the following code which is valid
(see bottom). It is a caching mechanism where $this->blocks[$handle] is
a piece of html delimited by <!--##START.NAME##--><!--##END.NAME##-->,
you get the idea. An attempt to implement a caching system was met with
a crash. The problem appears to be somewhere within the means by which
arrays are handled. 

I used the following setup when reproducing this crash:

Server: Win32 Apache 1.3.26
PHP Installation: SAPI Module via php4apache.dll
OS: Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 3

I have reason to believe that this may exist in the global code as well
as after testing it on another server, the array indices did not return
a value when set.

I should also note that this a rather obscure bug (rather obvious), however the results are the same on every execution attempt. Removing the calls to this array seem to remove this problem. However further research showed that the first call is benign. The second call to that array indice causes a crash.

The alternate server (http://soulnet.tk):
OS: Windows XP
CPU: Dual Intel Pentiums 232Mhz (each)
Server: OmniHTTPD 1.0.1
PHP Installation: CGI-Binary

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function tpl_seek ( $handle , $name ) 
{

	$name = strtoupper ( $name );
		
if ( isset ( $this->tpl_cache[$handle][$name] ) ) return
$this->cache[$handle][$name];
		
	if ( preg_match (
"/<!--##START\.$name##-->(.+?)<!--##END\.$name##-->/si" ,
$this->blocks[$handle] , $matches ) )
	{
		$this->tpl_cache[$handle][$name] = $matches[1];
		$this->current = $matches[1];
		return TRUE;
	}

	return FALSE;
}

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip

First of all, test this with latest snapshot.
If this problem still happens with the snapshot too,
then provide us a complete, self-contained example
script which can be easily copy'n'pasted and run.

I have a rather similar problem:

Platform:
- Windows 2000 SP 3
- Apache 1.3
- crash happens on both SAPI and CGI
- PHP 4.2.3

The crash does NOT happen under Windows XP using the same setup, only under Windows 2000 !

Description:

I experience a similar problem as the original author of the bug note - in a member function ("within objects") I'm creating/adding items to a hash array ("array handling") which contains pairs of string=>object instance.

Once I access that array, tho, by using foreach(), it makes PHP crash (same happens with while(list=each), but NOT with a for() on the array_keys()). Even tho I thought that I had a work-around using the mentioned for() over array_keys() of the hash array, it made my application crash at another position, too - a position where I'm just accessing a particular array member via it's hash key.

Somehow, here I can only guess, PHP seems to have a problem that corrupts my array - which then makes PHP crash. From the error message (invalid write operation) I suspect that there's some invalid pointer stuff going on, but again, I can only guess.

I'm sorry that I can't give a reproducing piece of code, but that is the first time the problem occured and I wasn't able to simplify the code and track it down yet.

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