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Request #39915 Trying to access the index of an integer should throw a warning
Submitted: 2006-12-20 23:31 UTC Modified: 2019-07-10 12:19 UTC
Votes:3
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:3 of 3 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (33.3%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: thuejk at gmail dot com Assigned: nikic (profile)
Status: Closed Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.2.0 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-12-20 23:31 UTC] thuejk at gmail dot com
Description:
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Trying to access the index of an integer is not a well-defined operation IMO, having no reasonable meaning. In practice in PHP, it seems to simply return null in all cases.

I accidentally accessed an integer which I thought was a string. Because no error was returned it took me some time to track down the problem.

Therefore, I suggest that trying to access an index on an integer should throw an E_NOTICE or E_WARNING.

Reproduce code:
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error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

$a = 1234;
//This will print "", with no error raised.
echo '"'.$a[0].'"';



Expected result:
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An E_NOTICE or E_WARNING.

Actual result:
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No error raised

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 [2015-01-09 00:41 UTC] ajf@php.net
-Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues
 [2015-01-09 00:41 UTC] ajf@php.net
Related: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37676
 [2019-07-10 12:19 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: nikic
 [2019-07-10 12:19 UTC] nikic@php.net
Will throw a notice in 7.4.
 
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