Re: Re: A little confusing thing on (mistakenly) geting a offset fromstring with multi dim index.

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>wrote: > Rain Lee wrote: > > > I think the convert that cause the 'key' become 0 is ... not a good > > idea. But my experience on PHP is so little, maybe there is some > > reason for it that i never know. > > I have to agree that this behavior is somewhat unexpected. However, it > seems to fit well to PHP's type juggling, which generally takes getting > used to. And of course you can get around this behavior by making sure > you have an array and not a string; consider making use of type hinting[1]. > > > Don't know what's the opinion of those guys inside the PHP. > > Me neither. You might consider filing a feature request[2] or asking on > php.internals[3]. > > [1] > <http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.typehinting.php> > [2] <https://bugs.php.net/> > [3] <news://news.php.net/php.internals> > > -- > Christoph M. Becker > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Trying different versions of php give different results: http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/ $string = 'this is a string'; var_dump($string['check']); var_dump(isset($string['check'])); var_dump(isset($string['check'][0])); Biggest change from 5.3 -> 5.5 No idea why this is happening, like Chris said php internals might be a good place to ask.