From:             
Operating system: Linux, Windows
PHP version:      5.3.6
Package:          Variables related
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:Treating null, boolean and numbers as arrays does not trigger 
an error

Description:
------------
This bug is really annoying and generates many headeaches to millions of
php 

developers. It's really hard to detect this bug sometimes, and that is
because 

we have so much faith in PHP and we think that it's not possible that php
would 

allow us to write such a nonsensical code and not throw an error, after all


didn't we set the most strict error reporting you allow us to set?



This example code should be self explanatory:



<?php



error_reporting(-1); // The most strict error reporting.



$n = null;

echo $n[12]; // That should generate at least a E_NOTICE or E_STRICT
warning.



$f = false;

echo $f[12]; // No error.



$t = true;

echo $t[12]; // No error, again.



$a = 4;

echo $a[12]; // Oh really, again no error? What a surprise!



$a = 4.44;

echo $a[12]; // And what do you think?! Guess! No error!



?>



Please fix it ASAP.

Thank you for your time.


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Fixed in SVN:                        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=fixed
Fixed in SVN and need be documented: 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:                      
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:               
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=needscript
Try newer version:                   
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:                 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=support
Expected behavior:                   
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55032&r=mysqlcfg

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