Doc #53371 [Asn->Csd]: parse_url docs say it returns FALSE on malformed URLs. It may return NULL.

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53371&edit=1 ID: 53371 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported by: brianlmoon@php.net Summary: parse_url docs say it returns FALSE on malformed URLs. It may return NULL. -Status: Assigned +Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: All PHP Version: 5.3.3 Assigned To: aharvey Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: 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. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-21 17:28:02] brianlmoon@php.net Description: ------------ From the docs: "On seriously malformed URLs, parse_url() may return FALSE. Otherwise an associative array is returned, whose components may be (at least one):" However, in some cases it will return NULL as well. Actually, I am having a really hard time getting it to return FALSE. I am not sure it ever does. I know it will throw a warning at times. But, it does not even seem to do that on an empty string. Test script: --------------- <?php var_dump(parse_url("1,2,3,4", PHP_URL_QUERY)); var_dump(parse_url("1,2,3,4")); ?> Expected result: ---------------- The documentation should state that the function returns NULL when the 2nd parameter is used and the requested portion of the URL is not not set. Actual result: -------------- The documentation makes no mention of the function ever returning NULL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53371&edit=1