#29426 [NEW]: Incomplete/inconsistent functionality

From: php at peterrobins dot co dot uk Operating system: Linux 2.4 PHP version: 5.0.0 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: Incomplete/inconsistent functionality Description: ------------ According to the manual page, you can add a node with SimpleXML, but this does not seem to work, either as $xml->movie[0]->characters[0]->character[0]->age = '21'; nor as $xml->movie[0]->rating[2] = 'not bad'; Deletion works on attributes unset($xml->movie[0]->rating[1]['type']); but at node level, deletes all unset($xml->movie[0]->rating); This is inconsistent with reading where $xml->movie[0]->rating fetches the first node only. unset($xml->movie->rating); deletes all ratings for the 1st movie only. It does not appear possible to delete just 1 node unset($xml->movie[0]->rating[1]); Because objs are now refs not copies, can do this $rat = $xml->movie[0]->rating[0]; $rat['name'] = 'judge'; but not this $rat = 'new content'; nor this $rat->child[0] = 'new rating'; and if I try and do $rat->child = 'new rating'; I get 'Attempt to assign property of non-object' -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=29426&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29426&r=float