Doc #52927 [Opn->Dup]: T_STRING token used for function and class names but documented for strings

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52927&edit=1 ID: 52927 Updated by: salathe@php.net Reported by: stephan dot soller at helionweb dot de Summary: T_STRING token used for function and class names but documented for strings -Status: Open +Status: Duplicate Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: 5.3.3 Block user comment: N New Comment: See #52526 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-09-26 22:19:15] stephan dot soller at helionweb dot de Description: ------------ The documentation page about the PHP parser tokens (http://php.net/tokens) states that the T_STRING token is an "string array index inside string" with this example code: "$a['a']". Instead of this the T_STRING token is used for general symbol names (e.g. functions, classes, interfaces, constants). The attached CLI test script lists the tokens for the example code of the documentation ("$a['a']") and it does not contain any T_STRING tokens. The second test source code with a function, class and constant however contains three T_STRING tokens, one for each symbol name (fun, TestClass and tconst). I'm using the Ubuntu 10.04 PHP package: $ php -v PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Sep 17 2010 13:49:46) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies It would be nice if the documentation can mention the correct use of T_STRING. Test script: --------------- <?php function inspect_tokens($code){ print('Tokens for code: ' . $code . "\n"); $tokens = token_get_all($code); foreach($tokens as $token) print( (is_string($token) ? $token : token_name($token[0]) . ': ' . $token[1]) . "\n"); } inspect_tokens('<?php $a = array("a" => 1); $s = "$a[\'a\']"; ?>'); print("\n----------\n\n"); inspect_tokens('<?php function test(){} class Test(){ const test = 123; } ?>'); ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52927&edit=1