#37442 [NEW]: Bad variable type from simplexml

From: warden at warden dot cz Operating system: Gentoo Linux PHP version: 5.1.4 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: Bad variable type from simplexml Description: ------------ I have file conf.xml: <conf> <frequency></frequency> </conf> If I use $conf = simplxml_load_file(conf.xml) in object and than put the value of frequency into object variable ($this->frequency = $conf->frequency) everything is OK, but if I want to use this value in sleep($this->frequency) function, an error is displayed: Warning: sleep() expects parameter 1 to be long, object given in... If I try to get variable type of frequency, "object" is returned...when I settype($this->frequency, "integer"), everything works good... List of compiled modules: apache2, bzip2, cgi, cli, crypt, exif, force-cgi-redirect, ftp, gd, iconv, imap, mhash, mysql, ncurses, nls, pcntl, pcre, posix, readline, reflection, session, simplexml, spell, spl, ssl, truetype, xml, xpm, xsl, zip, zlib Expected result: ---------------- Clasic sleep(30); with no error Actual result: -------------- Warning: sleep() expects parameter 1 to be long, object given in... -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=37442&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37442&r=mysqlcfg