Bug #62633 [Opn->Nab]: strcasecmp does not warn user if both params are not strings

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62633&edit=1 ID: 62633 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported by: iam4webwork at hotmail dot com Summary: strcasecmp does not warn user if both params are not strings -Status: Open +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: PHP is a weakly typed language by design: if a scalar can be coerced into the type that a function expects, it will be. Expected behaviour → not a bug. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-07-22 21:23:23] iam4webwork at hotmail dot com I believe that somewhere the underlying C source code is converting the PHP TRUE, i.e. 1 to "1" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-07-22 21:19:42] iam4webwork at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ When I provide strcasecmp with two parameters where one is TRUE and the other is a string, php does not generate a warning to say that the first parameter needs to be a string and silently converts TRUE to "1" and executes. Test script: --------------- <?php var_dump(strcasecmp(TRUE, "bob")); // -49 Expected result: ---------------- I expected a parser error message. Actual result: -------------- -49 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62633&edit=1