Bug #37746 [Com]: Incorrect encoding of PHP associative arrays in XML-RPC response.

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37746&edit=1 ID: 37746 Comment by: braun at easisoft dot net Reported by: glideraerobatics at hotmail dot com Summary: Incorrect encoding of PHP associative arrays in XML-RPC response. Status: Wont fix Type: Bug Package: XMLRPC-EPI related Operating System: FreeBSD 6.1 PHP Version: 5.1.4 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: 8 Years and the Problem is still persisting? PHP 5.4 OS Win 7 x64 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-11-28 01:09:43] yunosh@php.net I can't see how fixing this is going to break existing code. With the current implementation, using array keys from xmlrpc result sets is useless, because they don't have a meaning. So people will either use structs, or loop through the arrays ignoring the keys completely. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-06-21 13:35:20] glideraerobatics at hotmail dot com Ok, but then the question: Could a 'mixed' array be of any use in xmlrpc communication if the numeric keys are being lost? I can't (yet) see how anybody could be relying on that because the xmlrpc response is useless/invalid in such cases. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-06-21 08:19:02] mike@php.net Well, 4 years with an unknown amount of people relying on it. mike@honeybadger:~$ cli -r 'var_dump(xmlrpc_get_type(array(123=>123)), xmlrpc_get_type(array("a"=>123)), xmlrpc_get_type(array(123=>123,"a"=>123)));' string(5) "array" string(6) "struct" string(5) "mixed" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-06-21 01:36:19] glideraerobatics at hotmail dot com I'm confused. Is "It's been that way since the very first release" the reason why it won't be fixed? I'm glad Microsoft didn't think that way otherwise I'ld still be seeing multiple BSOD's every day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-06-19 08:20:56] mike@php.net It's been that way since the very first release, if the array contains numeric indices only. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=37746 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37746&edit=1