#37442 [Opn]: Bad variable type from simplexml

ID: 37442 User updated by: warden at warden dot cz Reported By: warden at warden dot cz Status: Open Bug Type: SimpleXML related Operating System: Gentoo Linux PHP Version: 5.1.4 New Comment: I forgot to write my frequency value in this example, so that file looks like: <conf> <frequency>30</frequency> </conf> Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-05-14 23:11:39] warden at warden dot cz 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=37442&edit=1