Bug #70338 [NEW]: Variable incompatibility with PHP 5.6

From: craig_carnell at hotmail dot com Operating system: OS X 10.10.5 PHP version: 7.0.0RC1 Package: Session related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Variable incompatibility with PHP 5.6 Description: ------------ There exist an incompatibility with previous working code in PHP 5.6 in Magento CE 1.9.2.1 Test script: --------------- The following code works on PHP 5.6: app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Layout.php on line 555 $out .= $this->getBlock($callback[0])->$callback[1](); It has to be modified to look like this: $this->getBlock($callback[0])->{$callback[1]}(); Expected result: ---------------- Without the change, we get an exception generated -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70338&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70338&r=mysqlcfg