Re: Re: [PATCH] Notice on array to string convertion

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> Hi: >>   like the following script: >>   <?php >> $str = (string)array(); >> echo $str; >> >>    it is obviously intentionally convert a array to string ,  but the >> warning is coming: > > I think it's the correct way to react for PHP. This code is an extremely > convoluted way to write "echo 'Array';" and as such doesn't seem to do > anything useful. I have yet to see one single instance where converting > array to string made any sense. Of course, > > As for the warning in 60174, it seems to be a bug indeed - the code there > has no business converting any arrays to strings and in general the engine > shouldn't apply make_printable_zval to arrays knowingly - there's no useful > result that can come from that as far as I can see. So if you know more of > such cases lease point them out and they should be fixed. #60198 Array to string notice from array functions Some of the array_* functions that compare elements in multiple arrays do so by (string)$elem1 === (string)$elem2. If $elem1 or $elem2 is an array, then the array to string notice is thrown. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60198 thanks > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ > (408)454-6900 ext. 227 > -- Laruence  Xinchen Hui http://www.laruence.com/