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Bug #48478 Super-globals cannot be accessed with literal keys
Submitted: 2009-06-05 11:22 UTC Modified: 2013-02-18 00:33 UTC
From: arancaytar dot ilyaran at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Arrays related
PHP Version: 6CVS-2009-06-05 (snap) OS: Ubuntu 9.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2009-06-05 11:22 UTC] arancaytar dot ilyaran at gmail dot com
Description:
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In the current snapshot of PHP6, the values stored in the "internal" $_SERVER and $_ENV super-globals cannot be accessed using literal string keys like $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'].

This is because the array keys in these super-globals are of type "string", while literals in the script implicitly are of type "unicode".

This problem does not occur in $_GET, $_POST and $_REQUEST, because the request parameter names are implicitly in unicode too.

Reproduce code:
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// This will fail and print a notice:
print $_ENV['SHELL'] . "\n";

// This works:
foreach($_ENV as $key => $value)
  if ($key == 'SHELL')
    print $_ENV[$key] . "\n";

// This will work:
foreach ($_ENV as $key => $value)
  $_ENV["$key"] = $value;
print $_ENV['SHELL'] . "\n";

Expected result:
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/bin/bash
/bin/bash
/bin/bash

Actual result:
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Notice: Undefined index: SHELL in - on line 2

/bin/bash
/bin/bash


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 [2009-06-06 10:57 UTC] arancaytar dot ilyaran at gmail dot com
Failed to add; this will also work:

print $_SERVER[(binary)'SCRIPT_NAME'];

That's pretty nasty to have to do consistently though. You could work around it by defining constants for all keys:

define(SCRIPT_NAME, (binary)'SCRIPT_NAME');
print $_SERVER[SCRIPT_NAME];

But that's also ugly. It'd be more convenient if the keys were in Unicode by default.
 [2010-06-08 15:36 UTC] tony2001@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2010-06-08 15:36 UTC] tony2001@php.net
Please try using this snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php-trunk-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:

  http://windows.php.net/snapshots/


 [2013-02-18 00:33 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net
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