Re: PHP5 simpleXML bug or am i just being silly :)

OK sonce the php example code attachment go nuked here it is... [[::PHP START::]] <?php header('Content-type: text/plain'); $xmlstr = '<?xml version="1.0"?> <access>

    <user>
        <login>user1</login>
        <password>letMeIn</password>
        <site>www.pro-net.co.uk</site>
        <site>www.example.com</site>
    </user>
    <user>
        <login>user2</login>
        <password>myPassword</password>
        <site>www.pro-net.co.uk</site>
    </user>

</access>'; $nl = "\r\n"; $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr); print('Current PHP version is : '.phpversion().$nl.$nl); print('$xml is:'.$nl); print_r($xml); print($nl.$nl); // Test authentication to get the correct user information $login = 'user1'; $password = 'letMeIn'; print($nl.$nl.'Trying to authenticate "'.$login.'" with password "'.$password.'".'.$nl.$nl); $isAuth = false; foreach($xml->user as $user){

    if(utf8_decode($user->login) == $login && utf8_decode($user->password) == $password){
        $isAuth = true;
        break;
    }

} if(!$isAuth){

    print($nl.$nl.'Invalid User.'.$nl);
    die();

} // So lets output the variables to see what we have... print('$user is:'.$nl); print_r($user); print($nl.$nl); print('$user->site is:'.$nl); print_r($user->site); print($nl.$nl); print('$user->site[0] is:'.$nl); print_r($user->site[0]); print($nl.$nl); ?> [[::PHP END::]] William Bailey wrote:

To follow up my question from yesterday i have made a test script that will produce the problem that i am seeing. The attached script will produce the following output on both my windows box (which runs a 2 day old php5 snapshot) and my FreeBSD box which uses a version out of the ports. The php version below is from the freeBSD installation... [[::OUTPUT START::]] Current PHP version is : 5.0.0a4-alexdupre $xml is: simplexml_element Object (

    [user] => Array
        (
            [0] => simplexml_element Object
                (
                    [login] => user1
                    [password] => letMeIn
                    [site] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => www.pro-net.co.uk
                            [1] => www.example.com
                        )

                )

            [1] => simplexml_element Object
                (
                    [login] => user2
                    [password] => myPassword
                    [site] => www.pro-net.co.uk
                )

        )

) Trying to authenticate "user1" with password "letMeIn". $user is: simplexml_element Object (

    [login] => user1
    [password] => letMeIn
    [site] => Array
        (
            [0] => www.pro-net.co.uk
            [1] => www.example.com
        )

) $user->site is: Array (

    [0] => simplexml_element Object
        (
        )

    [1] => simplexml_element Object
        (
        )

) $user->site[0] is: simplexml_element Object ( ) [[::OUTPUT END::]]