Bug #46851 [Com]: Strict standards: Declaration of ... should be compatible with that of ...

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46851&edit=1 ID: 46851 Comment by: gabriel dot delepine at gmail dot com Reported by: oliver at teqneers dot de Summary: Strict standards: Declaration of ... should be compatible with that of ... Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: OpenSuSE 11.0 PHP Version: 5.2.8 Block user comment: N New Comment: I have exactly the same problem. Autoload() is called for the subclass before the class. A error E_STRICT is throw. I use PHP 5.3.2-1 on Ubuntu Serveur 10.04 It append for me when I use the design pattern sigleton and when I call the function getInstance() of the subclass. This function have to return an instance of the subclass but the error E_STRICT is throw. I check the change log of PHP 5.3.3-1 but I seen nothing about this. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-14 21:46:58] demaio at vanylla dot it I sthis a PHP bug then? Is this bug going to be fixed? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-11 16:45:07] colder@php.net What change? The error is in both cases here, only that in one case, it is not displayed because at the time it is emitted, error_reporting does not contain E_STRICT (.e. php.ini). It's not about ensuring class loading order. It is simply that if you define classes in a "wrong" order, or if you use autoload, classes loading will get postponed at runtime, hence errors will be triggered at runtime i.e. after the error_reporting call. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-11 14:48:04] david at customcode dot co dot za Surely this counts as a bug when you consider it in the context of applications that make extensive use autoload. I realise I am a bit late to this party but from what I can see the strict standard was changed in php 5.2.10 but I can't seem to find any mention of this change in the changelog. This appears to be a fairly major change potentially affecting alot of people's code. I would expect at least some documentation of the rationale behind the change and at least some guidelines. That being said, surely when it comes to ensuring that classes are loaded/compiled in the correct order, classes that needed to be autoloaded should be loaded first before the child class is compiled. Or am I missing something? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-06-30 09:48:04] colder@php.net It is simply related to the fact that if the classes are in the right order, they get defined at compile time and hence that strict error happens at compile-time, which is before you actually set to display E_STRICT. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-06-30 03:13:07] mauricio at yoreparo dot com Also tried on PHP 5.3.2, an issue too. thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46851 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46851&edit=1