#43509 [NEW]: PHP MSI Installer Creates bizarre Path env var

From: ericp at activestate dot com Operating system: Windows Vista PHP version: 5.2.5 PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Bug description: PHP MSI Installer Creates bizarre Path env var Description: ------------ Running the PHP 5.2.5 MSI Installer on Vista created a user path setting in my environment of this: C:\PHP\;䌻尺灡獰獜湶扜湩 Before I had all my path settings as a user-variable, and there was no system path. Reproduce code: --------------- Move the environment path setting as a System variable (this is probably wrong) Zap the system path environment variable Run the PHP 5.2.5 installer Expected result: ---------------- c:/php/ is inserted at the start of User path Actual result: -------------- The system path of C:\PHP\;䌻尺灡獰獜湶扜湩 is created. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=43509&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43509&r=mysqlcfg