Doc #68540 [NEW]: Documenattion about checking SimpleXML needs clarification

From: seo at gacek dot vot dot pl Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Documenattion about checking SimpleXML needs clarification Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/language.types.boolean --- Documentation needs some more information, to clarify when simplexml object is considered true. More information here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/27157104/1430632 Tried adding it to documentation <warning> <simpara> <literal>SimpleXML</literal> evaluates to &true; only if it has child nodes or properties - only then object is not considered empty. To check if <literal>SimpleXML</literal> object has &string; value you have to cast it to &string; </simpara> </warning> -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68540&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68540&r=mysqlcfg