Bug #67167 [Com]: Wrong return value from FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN, FILTER_NULL_ON_FAILURE

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67167&edit=1 ID: 67167 Comment by: infinitythe7th at gmx dot net Reported by: peter dot schultz at classmarkets dot com Summary: Wrong return value from FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN, FILTER_NULL_ON_FAILURE Status: Open Type: Bug Package: *General Issues Operating System: Fedora 20 PHP Version: 5.5.12 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This bug seems to exists since version 5.4.8 as discussed here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21469275/php-5-4-filter-var-filter-validate-boolean-bug-or-change-from-5-3 and being testable here: http://3v4l.org/PB6sp Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-05-01 11:40:50] peter dot schultz at classmarkets dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/filter.filters.validate --- FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN with the FILTER_NULL_ON_FAILURE flag return false if the first argument is an object. According to the documentation it should be null. Test script: --------------- <?php var_dump(filter_var(new \StdClass(), FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN, FILTER_NULL_ON_FAILURE));' Expected result: ---------------- NULL Actual result: -------------- bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67167&edit=1