Bug #62145 [NEW]: strpos returns null instead of false

From: maddok01 at hotmail dot com Operating system: linux hardy PHP version: 5.3.13 Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:strpos returns null instead of false Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.strpos#refsect1-function.strpos-returnvalues --- If the input to strpos is invalid the function used to return false. Now it returns null. Null is not a documented return value for this function. Test script: --------------- php -r 'var_export( @strpos( array( "" ), "test", 0 ) );echo "\n";' Before php 5.3 false After PHP 5.3 NULL Expected result: ---------------- false Actual result: -------------- NULL -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62145&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62145&r=mysqlcfg