Req #64185 [Com]: is_callable does not check syntax

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64185&edit=1 ID: 64185 Comment by: nikic@php.net Reported by: hanskrentel at yahoo dot de Summary: is_callable does not check syntax Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Scripting Engine problem PHP Version: 5.4.11 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I just remembered that as of 5.4 you can actually create classes with arbitrary names from userland using class_alias. So that makes the second point moot too. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-13 19:52:48] nikic@php.net Agree with what johannes said, marking as wontfix. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-13 14:40:45] johannes@php.net Even with classes such names could - theoretically - exist due to weird (3rd party) extensions etc. (i hope nobody does, but there's nothing stopping one) So "syntax" in this case does not mean "one could use those names in syntactically correct PHP code" but "the overall structure matches something that might be used in a lookup" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-10 17:04:38] hanskrentel at yahoo dot de NikiC was so friendly to just remind me that checking for the method name *is* limited because of __call and __callStatic (basically everything for a method name works, including a zero-length string). So this feature request is actually more about the classname validation then the method name validation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-10 16:04:21] hanskrentel at yahoo dot de Description: ------------ Using is_callable with the syntax_only parameter set to true does actually *not* check the syntax, for example of a valid classname or FQCN. Also not for the method name. My feature request is, that it will always check those strings according to the rules set in the PHP parser of the same PHP version the function ships with so that it can be used to validate PHP syntax as well. Same for calls with :: for static class name method calls. Test script: --------------- var_dump(is_callable(['', ''], true)); var_dump(is_callable(['', 'method'], true)); var_dump(is_callable(['0', 'method'], true)); var_dump(is_callable(['0\\foo', 'method'], true)); var_dump(is_callable(['\\0\\foo', 'method'], true)); Expected result: ---------------- bool(false) bool(false) bool(false) bool(false) bool(false) Actual result: -------------- bool(true) bool(true) bool(true) bool(true) bool(true) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64185&edit=1