#50472 [NEW]: in_array documentation should indicate casting of array elements

From: llahwehttam at gmail dot com Operating system: Linux PHP version: 5.2SVN-2009-12-14 (snap) PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: in_array documentation should indicate casting of array elements Description: ------------ in_array(0, array("a")) returns true. This is very much unexpected behavior for someone learning PHP. I see a unit test on line 38 of ext/standard/tests/array/in_array_variation4.phpt explicitly confirming this behavior. As mentioned in [14343], the current documentation does not indicate the array elements will be cast to the type of the needle. The description of the 'strict' parameter does not indicate why it may be necessary to use it. Adding the following text to the in_array function description would help: 'in_array casts the elements of the array to the type of the first parameter.' Further helpful text would be: 'If you are searching for a number in an array of strings, each string will be cast to a number. If this is not desired behavior pass "strict" as true.' -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50472&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50472&r=mysqlcfg