Re: Broken compatibility with escaping { in php 5.2

Bogdan Ribic wrote: > Hi all, > > Try this: > > $a = ''; > echo "\{$a}"; > > from php 4, it outputs "{}", from php 5.2 (one that comes with Zend 5.5) no-one here supports Zend. > it outputs "\{}", thus breaking existing scripts. AFAICT the escaping in that string is wrong - the fact that it did work the way you want it to is probably sheer luck. lastly I ran your tests and determined at the least that the 'break' occur *prior* to 5.2. at a guess it probably changed in 5.0, here are my results: # php -r 'echo "php",phpversion(),":\n"; $a = ""; var_dump("\{$s}");' ; php5 -r 'echo "php",phpversion(),":\n"; $a = ""; var_dump("\{$s}");' OUTPUT: php4.3.10-18: string(2) "{}" php5.1.2: string(3) "\{}" > be pragmatic - fix your script :-)