Doc #72394 [NEW]: PhpData's limitations are not listed.

From: forums at artfulrobot dot uk Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:PhpData's limitations are not listed. Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/class.phardata --- This fails to iterate certain Tar files, see example below. If this is a by-design limitation it should be noted. Test script: --------------- #!/bin/bash # Create a tar file. mkdir -p orig-dir/subdir; touch orig-dir/{a,b,subdir/c}; cd orig-dir tar czf ../test.tgz ./; cd ../ # PHP <?php $a = new PharData('test.tgz', RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS); print count($a) . " files\n"; foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator($a) as $path => $fileinfo) { print " " . $path . "\n"; // never runs. } Expected result: ---------------- 3 files phar:///some/path/./a phar:///some/path/./b phar:///some/path/./subdir/c Actual result: -------------- 5 files -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72394&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72394&r=mysqlcfg