Bug #53023 [NEW]: Fatal error gets displayed but is not fatal

From: Operating system: * PHP version: 5.3.3 Package: SOAP related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Fatal error gets displayed but is not fatal Description: ------------ When creating a soap client on a non-existing wsdl, an exception gets thrown and at the same time, a fatal error gets logged, but the script continues. Test script: --------------- try { $client = new SoapClient('nonexistentfile.wsdl'); } catch (Exception $e) { echo "catched exception: ", get_class($e), ": ", $e->getMessage(); } echo "if we had a real Fatal error, we wouldn't execute this line\n"; Expected result: ---------------- catched exception: SoapFault: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'nonexistentfile.wsdl' : failed to load external entity "nonexistentfile.wsdl" if we had a real Fatal error, we wouldn't execute this line Actual result: -------------- PHP Fatal error: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'nonexistentfile.wsdl' : failed to load external entity "nonexistentfile.wsdl" in /cab/src/dev/htdocs/test/scratchbook.php on line 102 catched exception: SoapFault: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'nonexistentfile.wsdl' : failed to load external entity "nonexistentfile.wsdl" if we had a real Fatal error, we wouldn't execute this line -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53023&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53023&r=mysqlcfg