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Doc Bug #66789 date() - hasn't warning if pass on second param bool or null type
Submitted: 2014-02-27 11:32 UTC Modified: 2016-06-14 16:21 UTC
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From: e dot romanov88 at gmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 5.4.25 OS: SentOS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-02-27 11:32 UTC] e dot romanov88 at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.date
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If a non-numeric value is used for timestamp, FALSE is returned and an E_WARNING level error is emitted. - 

date('Y-m-d H:i:s', null) or date('Y-m-d H:i:s', false) - hasn't warning, and function return reusult like date('Y-m-d H:i:s', 0);

Test script:
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echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', null);

Expected result:
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PHP Warning:  date() expects parameter 2 to be long, null given.

Actual result:
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"1970-01-01 03:00:00"

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 [2016-06-14 16:21 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2016-06-14 16:21 UTC] cmb@php.net 
That behavior is already documented for built-in functions
generally[1]:

| If the parameters given to a function are not what it expects,
| such as passing an array where a string is expected, the return
| value of the function is undefined.

It would be distracting to document this for each built-in
function explicitly.

[1] <http://php.net/manual/en/functions.internal.php>
 
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