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Bug #43786 declare() should complain with invalid directive
Submitted: 2008-01-08 12:36 UTC Modified: 2008-01-09 08:39 UTC
From: zabmilenko at charter dot net Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: 5.2.5 OS: Any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-01-08 12:36 UTC] zabmilenko at charter dot net 
Description:
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If you use a misspelled or unknown directive in a declare() statement, no error or warning is produced.  To help in debugging, at least a warning should be raised if a directive is used that is not known to the php engine.



Reproduce code:
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<?php
declare(foobar="baz")
{
    echo 'Hello, world';
}
?>

Expected result:
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Perhaps an error or warning stating that the declare directive is unknown or invalid.

Actual result:
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Blocked up code executes like expected but nothing occurs with the declare() statement.

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 [2008-01-08 13:25 UTC] zabmilenko at charter dot net 
I solved this by adding the following just before line 4705 of ZendEngine2/zend_compile.c (rev 1.796):


// Raise a warning
zend_error(E_COMPILE_WARNING, "Illegal directive [%s]", Z_STRVAL(var->u.constant));


It appears to work on my Debian Etch box, but I don't know if Z_STRVAL is 100% appropriate.  Thanks and have a nice day.
 [2008-01-08 17:53 UTC] johannes@php.net 
I think it's intentional. It at lest helps with PHP 6 compatibility :-)

declare(encoding="iso-8859-1");

and such work in PHP 5 and PHP 6 - meaning that PHP 5 ignores it and PHP 6 uses that encoding while parsing the file.
 [2008-01-09 08:31 UTC] zabmilenko at charter dot net 
That makes sense.  Would E_STRICT be appropriate in place of E_COMPILE_WARNING then?
 [2008-01-09 08:39 UTC] derick@php.net 
No... not at all. It is meant not to show anything because of forwards compatibility between PHP 5.3 and PHP 6.
 
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