Bug #68402 [NEW]: PHP reference changes last item of array

From: villeviitaharju at gmail dot com Operating system: Windows 7 PHP version: 5.5.18 Package: PHP Language Specification Bug Type: Bug Bug description:PHP reference changes last item of array Description: ------------ Scenario: foreach with value as reference function which has foreach with value as reference and returns array last item of unmodified array changes to modified array item namechanges doesn't change scenario. Test script: --------------- $bar = [["object_name" => "first"], ["object_name" => "second"]]; foreach($bar as &$b) $b["object_name"] .= " foo"; function foo($bar){ foreach($bar as &$o) $o["object_name"] = "bar " . $o["object_name"]; return $bar; } function echoObjects($bar) { foreach($bar as $o) echo $o["object_name"] . "<br />"; echo "<br />"; } echoObjects($bar); echoObjects(foo($bar)); echoObjects($bar); //extra bar on last item Expected result: ---------------- first foo second foo bar first foo bar second foo first foo second foo Actual result: -------------- first foo second foo bar first foo bar second foo first foo bar second foo -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68402&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=68402&r=mysqlcfg