Bug #67807 [Com]: Object passed by reference becomes a string

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67807&edit=1 ID: 67807 Comment by: atlantisnova at gmail dot com Reported by: atlantisnova at gmail dot com Summary: Object passed by reference becomes a string Status: Open Type: Bug Package: Class/Object related Operating System: Debian Linux PHP Version: 5.4.4 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Tried disabling xdebug and newrelic extensions... still no dice. If there's a private way to submit my phpinfo() I'd be happy to do that. Thanks! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-08-08 18:04:35] atlantisnova at gmail dot com Sure here you go: [PHP Modules] bcmath bz2 calendar Core ctype curl date dba dom ereg exif fileinfo filter ftp gd gettext hash iconv imap json libxml mbstring mcrypt memcache mhash mysql mysqli newrelic openssl pcntl pcre PDO pdo_mysql Phar posix Reflection session shmop SimpleXML soap sockets SPL standard sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm tokenizer wddx xdebug xml xmlreader xmlwriter zip zlib [Zend Modules] Xdebug I also tried xdebug_disable(); but the issue was still there. Thanks for looking into this! I'll try disabling xdebug in php.ini and restarting apache next... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-08-08 17:45:08] aharvey@php.net I can't reproduce this at all in a Debian Stable x86-64 VM with either the Debian package or a stock 5.4.4 install (tested both with and without xdebug). Can you provide the full list of modules enabled (php -m), please? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-08-08 17:31:33] requinix@php.net What about with Xdebug disabled? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-08-08 17:28:24] atlantisnova at gmail dot com More info: my system is a virtualized debian 64 bit machine running on a Mac,,, the production server where we discovered the problem is an dedicated debian 64 box (php versions listed in original comment). Sorry for not posting the exact output before! Here's a modified script that shows the correct value of $b before the notice: class A{ function do_stuff(&$b) { var_dump('Before in function:', $b); $defined = 0; #trigger_error("If I fixed the undefined variable but enabled this line instead, it will also turn b from an object into a string! So user-triggered notices bork it as well."); $x = $undefined || $defined ? 14 : 0; var_dump('After in function:', $b); } } class B{} $a = new A(); $b = new B(); $a->do_stuff($b); var_dump('After function:', $b); --------------- output of above ------------------ string 'Before in function:' (length=19) object(B)[10] ( ! ) Notice: Undefined variable: undefined in /vagrant/src/temp.tmp.php on line 7 Call Stack # Time Memory Function Location 1 0.1017 4382640 {main}( ) ../temp.tmp.php:0 2 0.1018 4385776 A->do_stuff( ) ../temp.tmp.php:17 string 'After in function:' (length=18) string 'B' (length=1) string 'After function:' (length=15) string 'B' (length=1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-08-08 17:22:55] atlantisnova at gmail dot com Yes it's exact and sure here's the output: ( ! ) Notice: Undefined variable: undefined in /vagrant/src/temp.tmp.php on line 6 Call Stack # Time Memory Function Location 1 0.0631 4382248 {main}( ) ../temp.tmp.php:0 2 0.0631 4385384 A->do_stuff( ) ../temp.tmp.php:16 string 'In function:' (length=12) string 'B' (length=1) string 'After function:' (length=15) string 'B' (length=1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=67807 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67807&edit=1