Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53037&edit=1
ID: 53037 Comment by: jinmoku at hotmail dot com Reported by: jinmoku at hotmail dot com Summary: activate FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Filter related PHP Version: 5.3.6 Assigned To: iliaa Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: NULL NULL NULL NULL string(0) "" string(0) "" string(0) "" string(0) "" string(0) "" string(0) "" string(0) "" string(0) "" Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-04-08 17:49:09] jinmoku at hotmail dot com maybe it's should work with others filters : var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_DEFAULT, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_SANITIZE_STRIPPED, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_SANITIZE_URL, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); var_dump(filter_var("", FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES, array('flags' => FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL))); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-04-03 18:31:28] il...@php.net This bug has been fixed in SVN. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-04-03 18:30:34] il...@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of iliaa Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=309920 Log: Fixed bug #53037 (FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL is not implemented). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-29 00:21:22] jinmoku at hotmail dot com Added patch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-10 18:13:04] jinmoku at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ Hi, there are any plan for FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL ? And why 'NULL' insteed 'FALSE' ? ;) Test script: --------------- $str = ''; $filter = filter_var($str, FILTER_DEFAULT, FILTER_FLAG_EMPTY_STRING_NULL); var_dump($filter); Expected result: ---------------- NULL Actual result: -------------- string(0) "" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53037&edit=1