Bug #74986 [NEW]: Environment variables set via putenv are not accessible via parse_ini_*

From: alan at aondra dot com Operating system: Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64 PHP version: 7.1.7 Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Environment variables set via putenv are not accessible via parse_ini_* Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.parse-ini-file --- In Windows environment, putenv does not make environment variables accessible to either of the functions parse_ini_string or parse_ini_file. Sample on test site 3v4l.org works as expected, but fails in local Windows development environment. Apache HTTPD 2.4.27 PHP 7.1.7 x64 TS Test script: --------------- <?php putenv('FOO=bar'); var_dump(getenv('FOO')); $str = <<<'EOF' BAZ=${FOO} EOF; $ini = parse_ini_string($str); var_dump($ini); Expected result: ---------------- string(3) "bar" array(1) { ["BAZ"]=> string(3) "bar" } Actual result: -------------- string(3) "bar" array(1) { ["BAZ"]=> string(0) "" } -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74986&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=74986&r=mysqlcfg