Bug #49161 [Nab->Csd]: Got null upon the MessageFormatter() class instantiation with empty pattern.

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49161&edit=1 ID: 49161 Updated by: danack@php.net Reported by: maximgb at yandex dot ru Summary: Got null upon the MessageFormatter() class instantiation with empty pattern. -Status: Not a bug +Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: *Languages/Translation Operating System: * PHP Version: 5.*, 6 (2009-08-05) Assigned To: stas Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is fixed in PHP 7. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-10 18:40:32] maximgb at yandex dot ru That's of course for you to decide, but as for me getting NULL as new operator result is a bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-10 17:21:07] stas@php.net BTW, you can use intl_get_error_message() to see what's wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-10 17:20:06] 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 ICU considers empty patterns to be invalid, so we do so too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-05 07:48:44] jani@php.net Apparently you must pass it at least 1 char pattern. Empty string isn't one. Not sure if this is intentional, Stas? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-05 00:29:02] maximgb at yandex dot ru Description: ------------ I've tryed to create the MessageFormatter class, from intl extension, passing an empty string for the constructor's second argument and I was pretty surprised to get NULL instead of object instance :) Reproduce code: --------------- $f = new MessageFormatter(Locale::getDefault(), ''); var_dump($f, is_object($f)); $f = MessageFormatter::create(Locale::getDefault(), ''); var_dump($f, is_object($f)); Expected result: ---------------- object(MessageFormatter)#1 (0) { } bool(true) object(MessageFormatter)#2 (0) { } bool(true) Actual result: -------------- NULL bool(false) NULL bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49161&edit=1