#31303 [Opn]: treating a string like a regular array leads to a fatal offset

ID: 31303 Updated by: nlopess@php.net Reported By: schmad at miller-group dot net Status: Open Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.7 PHP Version: 5.0.3 New Comment: Yep, please revert the change at 'language.types.string'. PHP 5 only causes a fatal error whith 'unset($string["a"]);' Nuno Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-12-29 17:08:00] et@php.net You changed the wrong thing, $string[0] still works. et@edea:~$ php -r '$foo = "abc"; var_dump($foo[0]);' string(1) "a" Also, the second example doesn't seem to produce a fatal error. et@edea:~$ php -r '$link = ""; var_dump(count($link["two"]));' Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in Command line code on line 1 int(1) et@edea:~$ php -v PHP 5.1.0-dev (cli) (built: Dec 28 2004 20:03:13) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-12-29 16:43:35] vrana@php.net 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. I believe it is already documented in Backward Incompatible Changes under Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5 in the sentence "Illegal use of string offsets causes E_ERROR instead of E_WARNING." However, I have added this to the String Type chapter: "However, this syntax is deprecated as of PHP 4 and produces fatal error in PHP 5." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-12-26 22:29:16] nlopess@php.net opening.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-12-26 20:29:13] derick@php.net THen it should be documented. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-12-26 20:08:32] schmad at miller-group dot net Perhaps it isn't a bug, but it does break backward compatibility with 4.3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/31303 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31303&edit=1