PHP 4.0 Bug #7878: intval base argument useless unless first arg is a string

From: zak@php.net Operating system: Win32 and Linux PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: intval base argument useless unless first arg is a string The base argument for intval has no effect unless the first argument is a string. I am not sure what the best fix for this is: We could document that you should make the first argument a string to have the base argument used. We could convert the first argument to a string (using convert_to_string_ex) if there is a second argument That would mke calls made with base 10 would work as expected: intval (1000, 11); // Returns 1331 intval ('1000', 11); // Returns 1331 However, calls using other bases might seem a bit odd: intval ('077', 8); // returns 63 intval (077, 8); // returns 51 This would be because 077 is converted to 63, then the argument is converted to a string. Or we could add a warning if the first arg is not a string? Any thoughts?? -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=7878&edit=1