Bug #53860 [Bgs]: unexpected behaviour in 'foreach' syntax checking

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53860&edit=1 ID: 53860 User updated by: soriasoft at gmail dot com Reported by: soriasoft at gmail dot com Summary: unexpected behaviour in 'foreach' syntax checking Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Unknown/Other Function Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.3.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: ok, but, $key and $value(the iteration variables) still "living" out of the foreach loop code, and make this really hard to debug. In other languages, this don't happens. May be for you, is not an error, but some notice of this isn't a bad idea. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-27 22:21:52] rasmus@php.net There is no syntax error there though. foreach(...); is a valid loop construct and { expr; } is also a valid construct on its own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-27 21:41:41] soriasoft at gmail dot com Description: ------------ I found and unexpected behavior in the syntax checking. When you write a ';' after the open brace, the parser doesn't display an error or notice message, and executes the code with the last element of the array. I test this in php5.3 and php5.2. This "innocent" ; is realy hard to debug. The enviroments: joac@pepino ~/ReposGcoop $ php -v PHP 5.3.3 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Jul 25 2010 12:50:19) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies debdev@jaula:~/www$ php -v PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny9 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Aug 4 2010 03:25:57) Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies with Xdebug v2.0.3, Copyright (c) 2002-2007, by Derick Rethans Test script: --------------- <?php function show_array(&$data_array){ foreach ($data_array as $key=>$value); { print "$key => $value\n"; if ( is_array( $value ) ){ show_array1( $value ); print "End of nested Array\n"; } } }; $evil_array = array ( 'item1' => array ( 'item1_1' => array( 'item1_1_1' => 1, 'item1_1_2' => 2 ), 'item1_2' => array( 'item1_2_1' => 3,), ), 'item2' => '4'); show_array($evil_array); ?> Output: joac@pepino ~/ReposGcoop $ php bugphp.php item2 => 4 Expected result: ---------------- I expect some error or notice for this syntax error. Actual result: -------------- joac@pepino ~/ReposGcoop $ php bugphp.php item2 => 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53860&edit=1