Doc #54153 [Ver->Csd]: strlen(array) behavior change as of 5.3

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54153&edit=1 ID: 54153 Updated by: philip@php.net Reported by: ghensley at gmail dot com Summary: strlen(array) behavior change as of 5.3 -Status: Verified +Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: redhat PHP Version: 5.3SVN-2011-03-03 (SVN) -Assigned To: +Assigned To: philip Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is fixed in SVN and will show up online this upcoming Friday. Thank you for the bug report :) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-21 18:25:50] philip@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of philip Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=309499 Log: Documented strlen() behaviour with arrays including the 5.3 change. Closes PHP Bug #54153 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-03 21:18:38] philip@php.net Confirmed, sort of. PHP versions prior to 5.3 will always return 5, because the string 'Array' has a length of 5 (it also emits an E_NOTICE error). As of 5.3, it returns NULL and emits an E_WARNING error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-03 20:52:03] ghensley at gmail dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.strlen#Description --- I found a "bug" when upgrading from php 5.2.9. In 5.2.9 stelen when invoked on an array would return the size of the array In 5.3.3 strlen when invoked on an array returns null This behavior was sort of unexpected. The documentation might want to reflect the change - or the function should maybe throw a warning or error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54153&edit=1