Bug #52382 [NEW]: NULL in method arguments is casted to string?

From: Operating system: all ? xp x64 PHP version: 5.3.2 Package: DOM XML related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:NULL in method arguments is casted to string? Description: ------------ hi, test this: header("Content-Type: text/plain"); $doc = new \DOMDocument() $doc->appendChild($doc->createElement("root", NULL)); echo $doc->saveXML(); echo "\n\nshould be equivalent to:\n\n"; $doc = new \DOMDocument() $doc->appendChild($doc->createElement("root")); echo $doc->saveXML(); i hope other DOM methods will work good... otherwise fix is needed thank you! -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52382&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52382&r=mysqlcfg