Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #8180: Multiple "else" clauses in an "if" statement do not generate an error

Are you sure you're not logging errors instead? Also, I think your user-agent may be supplying this page because the document contains no data. -adam On 9 Dec 2000 greg@adhesivemedia.com wrote: > From: greg@adhesivemedia.com > Operating system: Winnt 4.0 sp6 > PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 > PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem > Bug description: Multiple "else" clauses in an "if" statement do not > generate an error > > The following script does not generate a parse error, and results in either zero output (an > empty document), or a skeletal HTML document unrelated to the desired output (see below). > > Sample script > ---------------------------------------------- > <?php > > if ( 1 ) { > print("1"); > } else { > print("2"); > } else { > print("3"); > } > > ?> > ---------------------------------------------- > > > Weird HTML output > ---------------------------------------------- > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; > charset=windows-1252"></HEAD> > <BODY></BODY></HTML> > ---------------------------------------------- > (note: this HTML output is unrelated to any code in the php file. It appears to be coming from > the script engine itself?) > > The expecetd behavior would be that an error is generated by the script engine. This proved to > be an irritating bug to track down on a fairly complex page with multiple nested "if" > statements, since no error was reported and no content was generated. > > One other note, this same sample file generates a parse error on our FreeBSD box running PHP > 4.0.2. > > > -- / adam maccabee trachtenberg | visit college life online \ \ adam@student.net | http://www.student.com /