Hi, I've been experiencing very weird behaviour (which I can't seem to reproduce). Nonetheless, I can tell you what happens, and you can decide if this is a PHP5 bug or feature. I wish I could give more information on this, but I can't seem to create a clean situation where this happens. I just hope somebody reads this and goes "Eureka!" or something.
I post some text fields to a PHP page. These variables are entered into a function, which calls itself (so it's a recursive function). The idea is that it deletes information from a table, and the records link to eachother (records are child/parent of eachother). I made the mysql query wrong, so that the function ended up calling itself recursively for infinity. The weird thing though, is that my script did not crash, it just stopped functioning when I called this function for the first time (and thereby creating the infinite loop). Now I figure that the infinity is somehow detected so the function won't stall the system until apache is stopped. This isn't the weird thing. The weird thing is, that when this occured, none of the submitted information existed anymore, not even at the start of my script. The idea: submit.php: <? var_dump($_POST); $obj->recursiveFunction($_POST["foo"]); ?> var_dump printed "NULL". submit.php: <? var_dump($_POST); // $obj->recursiveFunction($_POST["info"]); ?> var_dump printed array information as it normally would. I can't explain this situation and it just doesn't seem to be preferred behaviour. I hope anyone can do anything with the above information. I can't offer you a perfect example to reproduce this (and I don't have a clue why I can't). Thanks for reading, Ron -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
