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Doc Bug #67613 Inconsistency in the documentation
Submitted: 2014-07-14 00:22 UTC Modified: 2015-03-25 20:25 UTC
From: zuires at gmail dot com Assigned: aharvey (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: 5
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2014-07-14 00:22 UTC] zuires at gmail dot com
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.stripos
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Stripos returns eiter an integer or boolean, just like strpos. While strpos claims to return "mixed," stripos claims to return an integer. It is a little inconsistency which should be perhaps corrected so that same return values both have an equivalent return type in the documentation. 


Test script:
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mixed strpos ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, int $offset = 0 ] )


Patches

doc-bug-67613.patch (last revision 2015-03-25 20:20 UTC by patrick dot schwisow at gmail dot com)

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 [2014-08-22 22:17 UTC] james at notjam dot es
According to the svn revision that changed that in stripos:

> False doesn't cause mixed (howto/working)
 [2015-03-25 20:24 UTC] aharvey@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of aharvey
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=336195
Log: Document stripos() as returning mixed, since it does.

Fixes doc bug #67613 (Inconsistency in the documentation); patch by Patrick
Schwisow.
 [2015-03-25 20:25 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Package: Strings related +Package: Documentation problem -Assigned To: +Assigned To: aharvey
 [2015-03-25 20:25 UTC] aharvey@php.net
Applied the second version of the patch (which changes stripos(), rather than strpos()), after discussion on IRC.
 
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