Doc #73057 [Csd]: Casting a SimpleXMLElement to an array does NOT exhibit differing behavior

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73057&edit=1 ID: 73057 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: brian dot mcclure at adition dot com Summary: Casting a SimpleXMLElement to an array does NOT exhibit differing behavior Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: SimpleXML related Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04 PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: cmb Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: > to clarify, this only occurs when attempting to cast a child > node of a SimpleXMLElement that has multiple children with the > same name? I believe that is the only difference, but I'm not really sure about it. Anyhow, the relevant commit is <https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/1e3b32c7>. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-09-09 14:24:59] brian dot mcclure at adition dot com Thanks for the quick responses. to clarify, this only occurs when attempting to cast a child node of a SimpleXMLElement that has multiple children with the same name? Are there any other scenarios? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-09-09 13:45:40] cmb@php.net This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-09-09 13:45:15] cmb@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of cmb Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=340007 Log: Fix #73057: Casting a SimpleXMLElement to an array does NOT exhibit differing behavior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-09-09 13:24:26] cmb@php.net The former behavior was sometimes buggy, and the respective change was merely a bugfix. See <https://3v4l.org/5dQ0S> for a case where the behavior was different before and after PHP 5.4. I think the documentation should be improved to emphasize the word "always". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-09-09 12:50:47] brian dot mcclure at adition dot com fixed typo in summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73057 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73057&edit=1