Bug #53109 [Fbk]: htmlentities and htmlspecialchars problems with __toString

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53109&edit=1 ID: 53109 Updated by: cataphract@php.net Reported by: ibber_of_crew42 at hotmail dot com Summary: htmlentities and htmlspecialchars problems with __toString Status: Feedback Type: Bug Package: Strings related Operating System: Irrelevant PHP Version: 5.2.14 Block user comment: N New Comment: By the way, your report sounds like there's some kind of memory corruption happening, so the problem is possibly something happening before the call to htmlentities. It would be great if you could reproduce this. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-20 22:07:46] cataphract@php.net Thanks for your report. However, I can't reproduce this with: <?php class A { function __tostring() { return "aaa"; } } echo htmlspecialchars(new A()); Passing it to parameter 2, gives a message telling parameter 2 should be long, object given. There's nothing out of the ordinary with the implementation of htmlentities/htmlspecialchars, so unless you have a way to reproduce this, I'll close it as bogus in the next few days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-20 08:36:38] ibber_of_crew42 at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ When passing an instance of a class implementing __toString, as the first argument to htmlentities or htmlspecialchars, the object is apparently not always (maybe never?) cast to string before being pushed on the stack. In some cases this will cause php to erronously output that the function requires parameter 2 to be long, unknown given. This seems to be an error from the underlying C function? Sadly, I cannot provide a test script to reproduce the behaviour, but it should be easy enough to check whether my theory is correct. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53109&edit=1