On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Damien Tournoud <d...@damz.org> wrote:
> Hi Zeev,
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote:
>
> > Drupal homepage: One new E_DEPRECATED warning, which seems to catch a
> > real bug, or at least faulty looking code:
> > $path = trim($path, '/'); // raises E_DEPRECATED, as $path is boolean
> > false.
> > return $path;
> >
> > Drupal admin interface (across the all pages): One new E_DEPRECATED
> > warning, which again seems to catch a real bug - stripslsahes() operating
> > on a boolean.
> >
>
> All those are due to a bug in substr(), that we see now only thanks to
> proper type identification. There is no reason for substr() to ever return
> a boolean. It really needs to be fix to always return a string.
>
Yes, weird behavior that substr("", 2, 2); for example returns false. But
changing that is just another evil BC break.
>
> Damien
>
