#40583 [NEW]: No explanation of "Illegal offset type"

From: darrenoh at sidepotsinternational dot com Operating system: OS X PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: No explanation of "Illegal offset type" Description: ------------ I'm having a problem with unset generating an "Illegal offset type" error when I unset an array. My complaint is that there's no way to find out what the error means or why the unset command would generate it. Reproduce code: --------------- foreach ($form['taxonomy'] as $vid) { if (substr($vid, 0, 1) != '#') { unset($form['taxonomy'][$vid]); } } Expected result: ---------------- I expected to be given an error message that I could find an explanation for somewhere. Actual result: -------------- I found no explanation anywhere. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=40583&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40583&r=mysqlcfg