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Doc Bug #74277 Closure::bind does not require new scope to be string
Submitted: 2017-03-20 13:36 UTC Modified: 2017-03-20 13:51 UTC
From: bburnichon at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 7.0.17 OS: Linux Ubuntu 16.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2017-03-20 13:36 UTC] bburnichon at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/closure.bind
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On Manual page, it is mentioned that new scope should not be an instance but just class name. I checked behavior with https://3v4l.org/rrY4u and no notice were seen nor Closure::bindTo returns false.

Test script:
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<?php

class Foo { private $foo = 'foo'; }

$getState = function () { return $this->foo; };
$foo = new Foo();

$getStateBound = $getState->bindTo($foo, $foo);
var_dump($getStateBound());

$viaStatic = Closure::bind($getState, $foo, $foo);
var_dump($viaStatic());

Expected result:
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I expect at least 2 notices for last argument of bindTo and bind not being strings.

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 [2017-03-20 13:49 UTC] daverandom@php.net 
The docs don't specifically say that the new scope must be a string, they only indicate that the default value is equivalent to the string "static".

In fact the scope can be a string containing a class name, or an object (or null).

https://lxr.room11.org/xref/php-src%40master/Zend/zend_closures.c#196-210

The docs should maybe be a little more explicit about what is permitted.
 [2017-03-20 13:51 UTC] daverandom@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2017-03-20 13:51 UTC] daverandom@php.net 
On re-reading, I notice that the description of this argument does in fact state than an object can be used.
 [2017-03-20 14:08 UTC] bburnichon at gmail dot com 
I'm OK with the description, but in the changelog part http://php.net/manual/en/closure.bind.php#refsect1-closure.bind-changelog

It is stated that starting from PHP 7.0.0, newscope can not be (an object of) an internal class.

I think that what was misleading me, not all objects are rejected, only stdClass instances. Anyway, I think then that this notice should be added to Closure::bindTo documentation.
 
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