Bug #74339 [Com]: BOGUS: Fatal error: strict_types declaration must be the very first statement

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74339&edit=1 ID: 74339 Comment by: everx80 at gmail dot com Reported by: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Summary: BOGUS: Fatal error: strict_types declaration must be the very first statement Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 7.1.3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: @nikic@php.net I am sorry. After re-checking everything once more, it seems that an invisible UTF-8 character somehow snuck into the file, before the <?php So it's actually not an issue, but quite difficult to see the reason. It would be nice if PHP could somehow point that out, but idk if it's worth it... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-05-04 18:29:31] everx80 at gmail dot com @nikic@php.net Here in full detail: $ /usr/bin/php -v PHP 7.4.5 (cli) (built: Apr 30 2020 04:42:29) ( ZTS ) Copyright (c) The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.4.5, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies $ cat test.php #!/usr/bin/php <?php declare(strict_types=1); echo "test"; $ chmod +x test.php $ file test.php test.php: PHP script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable $ ./test.php PHP Fatal error: strict_types declaration must be the very first statement in the script in /home/test/test.php on line 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-05-04 17:24:14] nikic@php.net @everx80: When you say "from cli", what exactly do you mean? Invoking a file with CLI binary? Piping it as stdin? Entering it in interactive mode? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-05-04 17:06:02] everx80 at gmail dot com @nikic@php.net i didn't want to open another bug if not neccesary, however with PHP 7.4.5 the following code from cli still doesn't work and gives the same error: #!/usr/bin/php <?php declare(strict_types=1); echo "Hello World\n"; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-10-07 15:04:43] nikic@php.net @kevin at kevinlocke dot name: The stdin issue will be fixed in PHP 7.4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-10-07 13:38:09] kevin at kevinlocke dot name This issue also occurs when CLI scripts are read from stdin by php (e.g. for linting). For example, if mycli.php has the following content: #!/usr/bin/php <?php declare(strict_types=1); echo "Hello World\n"; Running php -l mycli.php prints "No syntax errors detected in mycli.php". Running php -l < mycli.php (as some lint tools like ALE do) prints "PHP Fatal error: strict_types declaration must be the very first statement in the script in Standard input code on line 3". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=74339 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74339&edit=1