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Doc Bug #80059 Lowercase true/false should be used in code examples
Submitted: 2020-09-04 11:51 UTC Modified: 2020-09-04 12:26 UTC
Votes:1
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Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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From: t dot motylewski at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Verified Package: Documentation problem
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 [2020-09-04 11:51 UTC] t dot motylewski at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: https://php.net/language.types.boolean
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According to PSR, boolean values should be written lowercase, eg.

$foo = false; 

and not 

$foo = FLASE;

Right now in many places in docs uppercase values are used, which confuses new users.

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 [2020-09-04 12:00 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2020-09-04 12:00 UTC] cmb@php.net 
> According to PSR, […]

PSR is irrelevant for the code examples in the PHP manual, since
these are supposed to follow the PEAR CS[1]; however, PEAR CS also
mandates that true, false and null must always be lowercase[2].

[1] <http://doc.php.net/tutorial/style.php>
[2] <https://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.naming.php>
 [2020-09-04 12:26 UTC] t dot motylewski at gmail dot com 
Thanks for the quick verification.
Its quite surprising that docs are not using PSR. I've created a separate ticket for this topic https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80060
 [2022-04-28 16:21 UTC] kinggorghenry at yahoo dot com 
The following pull request has been associated:

Patch Name: Ignore externally managed and generated files
On GitHub:  https://github.com/php/web-windows/pull/21
Patch:      https://github.com/php/web-windows/pull/21.patch
 [2022-04-28 16:36 UTC] maghsodid at yahoo dot com 
The following pull request has been associated:

Patch Name: Prepare for longer commit hashes
On GitHub:  https://github.com/php/web-windows/pull/24
Patch:      https://github.com/php/web-windows/pull/24.patch
 [2022-04-28 16:38 UTC] maghsodid at yahoo dot com 
The following pull request has been associated:

Patch Name: Fix issue with pt_BR not being updated
On GitHub:  https://github.com/php/systems/pull/15
Patch:      https://github.com/php/systems/pull/15.patch
 
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