#42069 [Asn->Csd]: parse_ini_file() gives wrong output with some of Non-alpha numeric characters

ID: 42069 Updated by: jani@php.net Reported By: mahesh dot vemula at in dot ibm dot com -Status: Assigned +Status: Closed Bug Type: PHP options/info functions Operating System: RHEL 4, Windows Xp PHP Version: 5CVS-2007-07-22 (CVS) Assigned To: jani New Comment: This bug has been fixed in CVS. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. Fixed in PHP_5_3 branch and HEAD. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-08-07 00:29:57] jani@php.net Actually the manual is wrong, @ is allowed. Only the boolean operators shouldn't be allowed in non-quoted strings. I have rewritten most of the scanner (and parser) to allow pretty much anything in the ini values. Patch can be seen here: http://pecl.php.net/~jani/patches/new_ini_parser_scanner.patch I will commit this to HEAD and upcoming PHP_5_3 branches along with fixed tests plus some more tests. Only the ini keys can not have any non-alphanumeric characters in them, except for _ and . (dot). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-07-22 15:41:19] mahesh dot vemula at in dot ibm dot com Description: ------------ PHP engine doesn’t throw the expected parsing error (which is according to doc) with the “input string given in “parse.ini file” containing ‘@’ char and which is not included in double quotes (“”). Documentation says - “Note: If a value in the ini file contains any non-alphanumeric characters it needs to be enclosed in double-quotes (") in ”http://in2.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php. And it is happening with many other Non-alpha numeric chars like #, %, &, +, -, `, ^, <, >, :, ‘, _, ?, etc. For some of chars like ‘!’, ‘~’, ‘()’, etc php throws parsing error which is expected according to doc. Environment: Operating System: Linux, Windows XP PHP Version:PHP 5.2.4-dev (cli) (built: Jul 21 2007 19:21:35) Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies Configure Setup: ./configure Reproduce code: --------------- Parse_ini_file.php: <?php $ini_array = parse_ini_file(dirname(__FILE__)."/parse.ini"); print_r($ini_array); ?> parse.ini: ;start of ini file [Strings with non-alpha numeric values] ;without quotes ;Expected a parse error Non-alpha_string1 = Hello@world ;Throws an error, which is according to doc ;Non-alpha_string2 = Hello!world ;with quotes ;Works fine, which is according to doc Non-alpha_string1_quotes = "Hello@world" Non-alpha_string2_quotes = "Hello!world" ;end of ini file Expected result: ---------------- PHP Warning: Error parsing %s/parse.ini on line %d in %s\parse_ini_file.php on line %d Array ( [Non-alpha_string2] => Hello ) Actual result: -------------- Array ( [Non-alpha_string1] => Hello@world [Non-alpha_string1_quotes] => Hello@world [Non-alpha_string2_quotes] => Hello!world ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=42069&edit=1