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

Hi, On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 09:55, Laruence <laruence@php.net> wrote: > 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 In such cases, the notice actually seems fine to me. This is typically the cases where you want to inform the user that he probably did something wrong... > >> -- >> Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect >> SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ >> (408)454-6900 ext. 227 >> > > > > -- > Laruence  Xinchen Hui > http://www.laruence.com/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Etienne Kneuss http://www.colder.ch