#36611 [NEW]: assignment change variable-type

From: milman at gmx dot de Operating system: WindowsXP PHP version: 5.1.2 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: assignment change variable-type Description: ------------ the assignment in function f to the simplexml-object changes the type of the righthand variable from int to string. Reproduce code: --------------- <? $xml_str = <<<EOD <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <c_fpobel > <pos > <pos/> </pos> </c_fpobel> EOD; function f ( $obj, $ii ) { $idx = (int) $ii ; $obj->pos["act_idx"] = $idx ; echo "that should be int not string<br>\n" ; var_dump($idx) ; } $xml = simplexml_load_string ($xml_str) ; f ($xml, 1) ; ?> Expected result: ---------------- int(1) Actual result: -------------- string(1) "1" -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36611&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=trysnapshot51 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36611&r=mysqlcfg