Bug #63976 [Com]: Parent class incorrectly using child constant in class property

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63976&edit=1 ID: 63976 Comment by: giacomo at boticca dot com Reported by: don at smugmug dot com Summary: Parent class incorrectly using child constant in class property Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: Class/Object related Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04 PHP Version: 5.4.10 Assigned To: dmitry Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I agree this was a bug but as it breaks existing code it shouldn't have been released in the 5.4 branch. It should have thrown an E_WARNING at worst. A backward incompatible change shouldn't be in a minor release, that's what major releases are for. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-03-19 13:06:25] dmitry@php.net The fix for this bug has been committed. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. For Windows: http://windows.php.net/snapshots/ Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-03-19 13:05:49] dmitry@php.net Automatic comment on behalf of dmitry@zend.com Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=7b0993bfb4b19bb160a72310b907c4fc12a5bef9 Log: Fixed bug #63976 (Parent class incorrectly using child constant in class property) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-03-19 12:35:21] mike@php.net Reflection is also affected. ...and I couldn't come up with code yet, where parent:: is problematic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-03-19 10:00:45] mike@php.net Unfortunately, this also changes error messages to something like: Undefined class constant 'Foo::B' instead of 'self::B'... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-03-19 09:59:23] mike@php.net The following patch has been added/updated: Patch Name: zend_do_fetch_constant Revision: 1363687163 URL: https://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug=63976&patch=zend_do_fetch_constant&revision=1363687163 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63976 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63976&edit=1