#42657 [Bgs->Opn]: ini_get returns an unexpected value

ID: 42657 Updated by: jani@php.net Reported By: jcortinap at googlemail dot com -Status: Bogus +Status: Open -Bug Type: *Configuration Issues +Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Win XP Pro / Win 2003 Server PHP Version: 5.2.4 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: jani New Comment: Another note: sendmail_from is set to NULL by default (ie. if it's not set in php.ini, the value for it is NULL -> causes ini_get() to return false. This should be mentioned in the documentation. I'm going to fix this for 5.3 (among lot of other issues with ini handling), so once docs are updated, reassign this back to me. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-09-18 11:04:27] jani@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php http://www.php.net/ini_get says: "Returns the value of the configuration option as a string on success, or an empty string on failure or for null values." So this is expected behavior when an ini option isn't set at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-09-13 12:28:56] jcortinap at googlemail dot com Description: ------------ This problem was found trying to set the sendmail_from directive from a script. This directive is intentionally NOT set on the php.ini (it is commented out). According to the documentation, ini_get should return an empty string since the directive is not set, but it returns a boolean false. When calling ini_set to set the value, it is expected to get the old value on success or FALSE on failure, and what we experience is that the setting is correctly set, but FALSE is returned. My theory is that ini_set is working correctly returning the "old" value of the setting, but since the old value is being returned as FALSE from ini_get, this is what we get as a return from ini_set, so the problem seems to be in the ini_get function. Tested with the same results on both 4.4.7 and 5.2.4. Reproduce code: --------------- // sendmail_from not set in php.ini. This should return an empty string $value = ini_get('sendmail_from'); var_dump($value); // sendmail_from is correctly set, so an empty string should be returned $old_value = ini_set('sendmail_from', 'from@example.com'); var_dump($old_value); // new value of the sendmail_from directive is correctly set $value = ini_get('sendmail_from'); var_dump($value); Expected result: ---------------- string(0) "" string(0) "" string(16) "from@example.com" Actual result: -------------- bool(false) bool(false) string(16) "from@example.com" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=42657&edit=1