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Bug #40828 Overloading: "Indirect modification" with "$this->foo[] = $x"
Submitted: 2007-03-15 19:35 UTC Modified: 2007-03-20 17:33 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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From: phpbugs at thequod dot de Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Arrays related
PHP Version: 5CVS-2007-03-15 (CVS) OS: Ubuntu Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2007-03-15 19:35 UTC] phpbugs at thequod dot de
Description:
------------
If a member of an object is not defined and "gets initialized" by 
PHP after/during the overloading process, a notice ("Indirect 
modification of overloaded property") gets triggered when PHP has to 
initialize it as an array type.

It makes no difference, if __get() returns by reference instead (a 
ref to a null value), as Tony stated in 
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40823 (the code in his comment does 
not work (anymore?)).


Background: we have a base class "Plugin" in our project and it uses 
__get() for some properties and returns null otherwise.
Now, if some user-created plugin does
$this->foo[] = 'bar'
it will create this notice - which is quite confusing (if the 
derived plugin does not "init" $foo with "var $foo").


Can't PHP internally do "$this->test = array()"?


(This may likely be a dupe of http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39337 - 
but that one got quite confusing, so this one here may become 
a "reference bogus bug" for this issue at least.)

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php

class A
{
        function __get($name)
        {
                echo "__get() called.\n";
        }

        function A()
        {
                $this->test[] = 'foo';
        }
}

$A = new A();

?>


Expected result:
----------------
__get() called.


Actual result:
--------------
__get() called.

Notice: Indirect modification of overloaded property A::$test has no 
effect in foo.php on line 12


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 [2007-03-15 19:44 UTC] tony2001@php.net
>as Tony stated in http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40823 
>(the code in his comment does not work (anymore?)).
The code in my comment works perfectly fine.

>Can't PHP internally do "$this->test = array()"?
No, it can't do your job for you. You have to do it in the __get() method.

 [2007-03-15 19:45 UTC] tony2001@php.net
Please, if you have any other _questions_ - ask them on a support forum.
 [2007-03-16 14:57 UTC] phpbugs at thequod dot de
>>Can't PHP internally do "$this->test = array()"?
>No, it can't do your job for you. You have to do it in the __get()
method.

1. It also won't work with
        function &__get($name)
        {
                echo "__get() called.\n";
                $r = array();
                return $r;
        }
2. It would not make sense to init any unknown/unhandled property 
as "array()" anyway
3. Your comment works, if you remove the "(array)" typecast in 
&__get() - it will cause "Only variable references should be 
returned by reference" otherwise
4. I'm not looking for support, but state that "$this->foo[]" is not 
supported in overloading - in contrast what you would expect

Please note that this is different from bug 40823, where _any_ 
property (which goes through __get()) gets handled as Foo::array!

What I want to work is:
Only handle some members as overloaded properties (e.g. $foo and 
$bar), but let all others work as intended - and that 
means "$A->foobar[]=" should work, just like "$foobar[]=" does.

Please make sure you really understand what the problem IMHO is 
here!

At least this should get closed as "Wont fix" and documented on 
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php.

See also 
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php#73512
 [2007-03-20 17:03 UTC] phpbugs at thequod dot de
Re-opening.
 [2007-03-20 17:33 UTC] tony2001@php.net
I've already explained everything, no need to repeat myself.
 
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