Bug #52042 [Nab->Csd]: Error creating MessageFormatter object with nested tags

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52042&edit=1 ID: 52042 Updated by: danack@php.net Reported by: zabruska at tugamail dot pt Summary: Error creating MessageFormatter object with nested tags -Status: Not a bug +Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: *Languages/Translation Operating System: Ubuntu 9.10 PHP Version: 5.3.2 Assigned To: stas Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is fixed in PHP 7. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-06-16 09:40:04] zabruska at tugamail dot pt I can understand if msgfmt_create(...) or MessageFormatter::create(...) return NULL on invalid patterns, but attempting to create any object using "new" should throw an exception. Imagine this: class MyMessageFormatter { function __construct($pattern) { if($this->badPattern($pattern)) { unset($this); return null; } } // ... } The above code makes no sense at all!!! PHP itself will compile the code, but will still give me an object. I insist that returning NULL from a constructor is a BUG, sorry... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-06-15 23:53:51] stas@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-06-15 23:53:36] stas@php.net Use quotes to quote { inside the format string, since { is a special char for message formats. Like this: $f1 = new MessageFormatter('en_US', '\'{\'what is wrong {0} with this pattern ???\'}\''); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-06-11 08:15:19] mike@php.net Constructors definitely should throw an Exception. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-06-11 01:56:48] zabruska at tugamail dot pt Escaping the tags makes no difference either ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=52042 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52042&edit=1