Bug #53775 [Com]: parseCurrency returns 0 instead of false

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53775&edit=1 ID: 53775 Comment by: _coola_ at arcor dot de Reported by: _coola_ at arcor dot de Summary: parseCurrency returns 0 instead of false Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: I18N and L10N related Operating System: win xp PHP Version: 5.3SVN-2011-01-18 (SVN) Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Correct! That´s the problem. Thank you. :) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-25 16:41:12] garioch2 at googlemail dot com I read the bug report and your reply as well. According to the respective manual page "returns the parsed value or FALSE on error" -> I would expect to get FALSE when trying to parse 'aaa' into any available currency and locale (And the one who wrote the bug report too) ^^ Instead it appears that the parseCurrency method just uses the locale to transform the float number it expects in the String-parameter And then simply uses float_val() to convert the string to a real float value. Thus we get 0 (zero) for trying to parse 'aaa'. But this makes it hard to differentiate between a real Zero and a Zero occuring coz of wrong input-data. And I think the FALSE would really help in the latter case (as in various string-functions like strpos and so on) thanks for your time! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-19 17:24:43] _coola_ at arcor dot de 1st parameter has to be a string http://php.net/manual/en/numberformatter.parsecurrency.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-18 14:01:59] iliaa@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php The parseCurrency() expects the 1st parameter to be a float, when given a string PHP automatically casts it to float resulting in 0. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-18 09:56:58] _coola_ at arcor dot de Description: ------------ Hi! :) I think i have found a bug in NumberFormatter. parseCurrency() returns 0 instead of false in the following test script. Same Problem with parse(). Test script: --------------- $fmt=new NumberFormatter('de_DE',NumberFormatter::CURRENCY); $result=$fmt->parseCurrency('aaa',$currency); //$result=$fmt->parse('aaa'); // results: var_dump($result); // float(0) var_dump($currency); // string(0) "" // no errors!! var_dump($fmt->getErrorCode()); // int(0) var_dump($fmt->getErrorMessage()); // string(12) "U_ZERO_ERROR" var_dump(intl_is_failure($fmt->getErrorCode())); // bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53775&edit=1