Bug #69300 [NEW]: $GLOBALS always assigned as reference variable.

From: sandeep dot singh dot bisht at gmail dot com Operating system: Ubuntu PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Testing related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:$GLOBALS always assigned as reference variable. Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/reserved.variables.globals --- Test script: --------------- <?php #--------------------------------------------------------- #---First Normal case(GLOBAL variable assign to local variable) #--------------------------------------------------------- $GLOBALS['abc']='123'; $test1=$GLOBALS; $test1['abc']='1234'; echo $GLOBALS['abc']."\n"; #----------Output is 1234 Expecting 123 #-------------------------------------------------------------------- #---Function test case(Global variable assign into variable inside function) #---------------------------------------------------------------------- test(); echo $GLOBALS['abc']."\n";#-----------Output is 0000 Expecting 123 function test() { $test=$GLOBALS; $test['abc']='0000'; } ?> -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69300&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=69300&r=mysqlcfg