Bug #60552 [Com]: Nonexistent array element is assigned a value

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60552&edit=1 ID: 60552 Comment by: anon at anon dot anon Reported by: gmtfn at yahoo dot com Summary: Nonexistent array element is assigned a value Status: Open Type: Bug Package: Arrays related PHP Version: 5.3.8 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: It's an unfortunate quirk but it's not a bug. You're doing string access by character index. The string 'filter' gets parsed as an integer, which yields 0 since it's an invalid number, and the character at index 0 in the string '5' is '5'. See the warning here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.substr Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-12-17 22:41:34] gmtfn at yahoo dot com Description: ------------ In the code sample provided, for some reason, $nonexistentElement gets assigned a value of 5. I'd expect this to trigger an error. Test script: --------------- $params = array('search'=>'5'); $nonexistentElement = $params['search']['filter']; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60552&edit=1