Bug #54930 [NEW]: Assigning a value inside a foreach leads to change a variable out of scope

From: Operating system: any PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Arrays related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Assigning a value inside a foreach leads to change a variable out of scope Description: ------------ I'm not sure if it's the right behavior, but seems that PHP doing it wrong, see the test script. Test script: --------------- $v = array(); $data = array('v1' => '0'); foreach($data as $k => &$v) ; foreach(array('v2' => '1') as $k => $v) ; var_dump($data); Expected result: ---------------- array(1) { ["v1"]=> &string(1) "0" } Actual result: -------------- array(1) { ["v1"]=> &string(1) "1" } -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54930&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54930&r=mysqlcfg