#41263 [NEW]: Engine treating strings as arrays

From: tachu at ezboardcorp dot com Operating system: 2.6.20-15-386 PHP version: 5.2.1 PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Bug description: Engine treating strings as arrays Description: ------------ When accessing a string by character offset php doesnt trigger error when going out of bounds of the string or accessing a non existing element. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $moo="asd"; var_dump($moo[444]); var_dump($moo['cow']); ?> Expected result: ---------------- Return false or null since the offset or index is not defined. Actual result: -------------- Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 444 in /home/tachu/.thunderbird/xs4vamjr.default/moo on line 3 string(0) "" string(1) "a" -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41263&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41263&r=mysqlcfg