#23385 [NEW]: Problem with object assignment and the :: operator in a function.

From: jon at lightsky dot com Operating system: linux PHP version: 4.3.1 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: Problem with object assignment and the :: operator in a function. I am having trouble assigning new objects returned from a method called with the :: operator. Here is the code that I am running. // PEAR mail object require_once ('Mail.php'); require_once ('Mail/sendmail.php'); // the function that i am running function send_notification ($intraval) { // Create the mail object using the Mail::factory method for send mail $params['sendmail_path']='/usr/lib/sendmail'; echo 'Test 1 ' . (Mail::factory('sendmail',$params)); echo '<br >Test 2 ' . ($bla = Mail::factory('sendmail',$params)); echo '<br >Test 3 ' . ($bla); echo '<br>Test 4 ' . $GLOBALS['bla']; // try creating the obj without the :: operator $send_mail = new Mail_sendmail ($params); echo '<br >Test 5 ' . $send_mail; } // attempt to run my function send_notification (1); It outputs This: Test 1 Object Test 2 Object Test 3 Test 4 Test 5 Object You can see that when I echo the results returned from the Mail::factory method in test 1 and 2 I get an object. However, when I attempt to echo the variable assigned from Mail::factory--tests 3 and 4--i get nothing. In test 5 i created an object using 'new' and it is assigned just fine. I don't know if this is really a bug but I don't know at this point what else it could be. Complied Modules: './configure' '--with-gd' '--with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql/' '--with-ldap' '--prefix=/usr/local/apache/php' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib' '--with-config-file=/usr/local/apache/lib/' On a side note I was searching for bugs with '::' and the search removed '::' from my search. I don't know if it is possible to allow '::' as a search string but it was quite a bit harder to find similar bugs when the main condition I was trying to match was removed -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23385&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23385&r=gnused