Bug #72718 [NEW]: PHP7: array to string conversion

From: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Operating system: PHP version: 7.0.9 Package: PHP Language Specification Bug Type: Bug Bug description:PHP7: array to string conversion Description: ------------ $count = $GLOBALS['cl_api']->$module['api_name']->count(0); $count = $GLOBALS['cl_api']->{$module['api_name']}->count(0); why in the world is the first a "array to string conversion" with PHP7 $module['api_name'] is clearly a field of a array and a string while i suck all the changes in context of $$ that above is somehow unacceptable because there is hardly some clean way to seek for such things since seek for ]-> would also find any of similar but fine code and seek for ]->$ the same -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72718&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72718&r=mysqlcfg