Re: Re: Stumped! 4.x to 5.1 problem!!

> markw@mohawksoft.com wrote: >> [snip] >>> seems the perceived problem is being caused by something else? >>> >> >> Sorry, I have to respectfully disagree. > > ok :-). Men of integrity must be able to disgree peacefully. :-) > >> >> I was converting all indexes to string indexes, and simply using >> "zend_hash_update" to re-constitute the objects and they simply did not >> work. When I scanned indexes strings to test for purely numeric content, >> and when true, used "zend_hash_index_update" instead, it worked. > > ah - now it makes more sense, your seeing a change in behaviour at the 'C' > level, from a userland perspective "0" and 0 still reference the same > element in an array. It is funny, but no. I thought it would work, but it simply didn't, not even with a $var["0"] index. There was, it seemed, no way to extract the members of the array. > > but obviously when playing with array indexes internally (under the hood > of the php engine) things are different between version 4 and 5. That's my bet. > >> >> This behavior appears different in 5.1.X from 4.x, I can't explain it >> 100%, but I know that this change fixed the problem I was seeing. > > good to see you fixed the issue! Well, the point I was trying to make was that there are other extensions, like wddx, that do the same thing, and people should know about it.