Bug #16293: string returned from functions mismatch with variable

From: nickv@shift2solutions.com Operating system: Slackware Linux 2.4.17 PHP version: 4.1.1 PHP Bug Type: Strings related Bug description: string returned from functions mismatch with variable Writing a script that POSTed XML query to a java servlet, the servlet would crash, saying that the XML document didn't follow the DTD... the call went something like this: echo htmlspecialchars(td_msg_query($blah->MsgXML())); This would always give an error. However, whenever we did this: $test = $blah->MsgXML(); echo htmlspecialchars(td_msg_query($test)); It would work just fine. $blah is an XML string builder class and td_msg_query does HTTP POSTs via php sockets. a string is returned from MsgXML containing an entire XML document. td_msg_query returns the response from the server after the POST. System Linux major 2.4.17 #60 SMP Thu Jan 24 17:41:40 CST 2002 i686 unknown Build Date Mar 6 2002 Configure Command './configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/php' '--with-dom=/usr/local/libxml' '--with-apache=../apache_1.3.20' '--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl' '--enable-dbase' '--enable-ftp' '--with-zlib-dir' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' Server API Apache Virtual Directory Support disabled Configuration File (php.ini) Path /usr/local/php/lib/php.ini ZEND_DEBUG disabled Thread Safety disabled Zend Optimizer 1.2.0 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16293&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16293&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16293&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16293&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16293&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16293&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16293&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16293&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16293&r=submittedtwice