On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Daniel Convissor <
dani...@analysisandsolutions.com> wrote:
> Hi Again Folks:
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 09:14:09AM -0500, Daniel Convissor wrote:
> > $a = 'foo';
> > echo $a['blah'] . "\n";
> >
> > But that second one echos out "f". This is a huge WTF.
>
> Two things for the record on this front. First, i've been actively
> using PHP for, what, ten years or so, and have never run into this
> behavior before. Second, this behavior turns the following one liner:
>
> if (isset($arr['package']['attribs']['version'])) {
>
> Into this:
>
> if (is_array($arr)
> && array_key_exists('package', $arr)
> && is_array($arr['package'])
> && array_key_exists('attribs', $arr['package'])
> && is_array($arr['package']['attribs'])
> && array_key_exists('version', $arr['package']['attribs'])
> && !empty($arr['package']['attribs']['version']))
> {
>
it is only necessary if you can't guarantee your data structure (so that
you can get a string where you expect an array)
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Ferenc Kovács
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