#23353 [Csd]: inline variable detection only handles one dereference

ID: 23353 User updated by: spagmoid at yahoo dot com Reported By: spagmoid at yahoo dot com Status: Closed Bug Type: *General Issues Operating System: WinXP PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment: Hopefully someone will at least fix the docs then. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-04-26 16:39:25] wez@php.net PHP 4 does not (and will not) support this kind of dereferencing. It *is* a feature of PHP 5; you are welcome to try a snapshot from http://snaps.php.net, but it is still beta. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-04-26 16:03:29] spagmoid at yahoo dot com If the parser accepts $A->B why can't it accept $A->B->C ?? come on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-04-26 16:02:35] spagmoid at yahoo dot com Very well, break the documentation instead of fixing the code: Chapter 7. Types /strings Simple syntax If a dollar sign ($) is encountered, the parser will greedily take as much tokens as possible to form a valid variable name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-04-26 15:55:56] pollita@php.net Where are you getting the information that: php is supposed to use "as much text as possible" when detecting variables in strings, but it stops at the first object. Is this in the manual somewhere? If so that page should be updated. For complex variable references in interpolated string you must encapsulate them in curly braces. In your example try: $String = "text {$Obj->Obj->Prop} text"; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-04-26 15:32:30] spagmoid at yahoo dot com Yes, this is a bug. Try again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 http://bugs.php.net/23353 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23353&edit=1