Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38409&edit=1
ID: 38409
Comment by: chudinov at yahoo dot com
Reported by: yury at shurup dot com
Summary: parse_ini_file() looses the type of booleans
Status: Open
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: PHP options/info functions
Operating System: Ubuntu 8.04.1
PHP Version: 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.4 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli)
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Versions 5.4 and 5.5 have same problem.
It is quite annoying to cast that is true or false to actually boolean type!
Previous Comments:
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[2012-03-15 10:17:58] adria dot cidre at gmail dot com
Still not working on Centos over PHP 5.3.10
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[2011-12-19 19:21:23] pwinnski at gmail dot com
PHP 5.3.6 on Centos. Still not fixed, so I must explicitly cast to boolean in the
code that reads the ini file.
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[2010-08-31 23:33:03] guy dot paddock at redbottledesign dot com
Hrm, it also looks like there's a similar problem for integers -- they become integer strings,
so is_int() returns FALSE on them.
Why doesn't parse_ini_file() translate values to the appropriate type?
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[2010-08-31 17:07:06] guy dot paddock at redbottledesign dot com
I also second the fact that parse_ini_file() should parse booleans as boolean types, rather than
strings. In my application, the values returned from parsing the INI file are checked to ensure that
they are the correct type (string, bool, int, etc). That way, if the user accidentally typed the
wrong value in for a setting, they are presented with the appropriate error message, rather than
having their value interpreted incorrectly.
Unfortunately, the way that parse_ini_file() parses booleans, it converts "TRUE" and
"FALSE" into "1" or an empty string "", which means that is_bool()
returns FALSE. I understand perfectly that is_bool() is intended only to determine if a variable
really is a boolean -- my problem is not with that function. My problem is with
parse_ini_file()'s counter-intuitive behavior of not parsing boolean values into a boolean
type. Why else would we want it interpreting boolean constants in the first place?
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[2008-12-12 14:43:42] yury at shurup dot com
It is very sad that this bug is still not classified, fixed and is perfectly reproducible after
about 2 years since my original posting. I hope I would be able to hack on the sources some day but
surely not during the next year to come.
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