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Doc Bug #65942 PHP Notice is fired if the specified $index does not exists
Submitted: 2013-10-22 01:11 UTC Modified: 2013-10-22 13:15 UTC
From: gontijo dot douglas at gmail dot com Assigned: daverandom (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2013-10-22 01:11 UTC] gontijo dot douglas at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/arrayobject.offsetget#refsect1-arrayobject.offsetget-returnvalues
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It'll fire a PHP Notice if the specified $index does not exists

Test script:
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<?php
// from http://www.php.net/manual/en/arrayobject.offsetget.php#example-3971
$arrayobj = new ArrayObject(array('zero', 7, 'example'=>'e.g.'));
var_dump($arrayobj->offsetGet(1));
var_dump($arrayobj->offsetGet('example'));
var_dump($arrayobj->offsetExists('notfound'));

// added by me
var_dump($arrayobj->offsetGet('notfound')); //shouldn't return null silently?


Expected result:
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int(7)
string(4) "e.g."
bool(false)
NULL


Actual result:
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int(7)
string(4) "e.g."
bool(false)
Notice: Undefined index: notfound in test.php on line 8
NULL

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 [2013-10-22 08:32 UTC] krakjoe@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2013-10-22 08:32 UTC] krakjoe@php.net 
This is expected behaviour; isset/offsetExists does not request a read of the element requested, only checks for it's presence. 

It would not be useful for isset/offsetExists to raise a warning; it is however expected that if you read from a non-existent element a warning will be raised, because you have not checked for the presence of the element but requested the elements data, which doesn't exist.
 [2013-10-22 10:23 UTC] bwoebi@php.net
-Status: Not a bug +Status: Open
 [2013-10-22 10:23 UTC] bwoebi@php.net 
That actually is a documentation problem: the docs don't state that

(new ArrayObject([…]))->offsetGet('undefinedIndex');

can raise a notice upon not found index.
 [2013-10-22 10:40 UTC] daverandom@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of daverandom
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=331907
Log: Document E_NOTICE emitted when an undefined index is supplied to ArrayObject::offsetGet(). Fix for bug #65942.
 [2013-10-22 10:41 UTC] daverandom@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: daverandom
 [2013-10-22 10:41 UTC] daverandom@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 [2013-10-22 13:15 UTC] gontijo dot douglas at gmail dot com 
@krakjoe After asking the guys on freenode#php, they said the same thing, this is expected behaviour. So there was a documentation bug, as stated in Package and Bug Type.

@bwoebi thanks :)
 
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