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Request #67949 DOMNodeList should implement ArrayAccess
Submitted: 2014-09-02 13:21 UTC Modified: 2014-11-17 14:46 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (100.0%)
Same OS:2 (100.0%)
From: daverandom@php.net Assigned: fmargaine (profile)
Status: Closed Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-09-02 13:21 UTC] daverandom@php.net 
Description:
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DOMNodeList should implement ArrayAccess. The write methods should either silently fail or throw a DOMException (probably the latter).

It would probably also be an idea to implement Countable at the same time, allowing for better interop between node lists and arrays of nodes.

Test script:
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<?php

$html = <<<HTML
<div>data</div>
HTML;
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->loadHTML($html);
var_dump($doc->getElementsByTagName('div')[0]->textContent);


Expected result:
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string(4) "data"

Actual result:
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Fatal error: Cannot use object of type DOMNodeList as array in...

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 [2014-09-24 20:08 UTC] fmargaine@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: fmargaine
 [2014-10-09 09:02 UTC] fmargaine@php.net 
PHP-5.6: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/9469db93110b2185f019da0dd66d3537c1a4b7a4

master PR (https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/842) still pending, but shouldn't have any issue since the 5.6 PR was merged.
 [2014-11-17 14:46 UTC] fmargaine@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2014-11-17 14:46 UTC] fmargaine@php.net 
Released in 5.6.3
 
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