ID: 25494 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: enygma at phpdeveloper dot org -Status: Closed +Status: Open Bug Type: Arrays related Operating System: Any PHP Version: 4.3.2 New Comment:
It's still inconsistent, and `will throw a warning and fail in 5 for non-array arguments' will break BC without a need for it. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-18 06:08:03] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Throwing an E_NOTICE error is not breaking anything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-18 05:56:38] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This `fix' is inconsistent with array_splice, which allows you to add non-array arguments. (This is also documented.) Also, this `fix' breaks BC. Is this really needed? I'd rather have those functions convert non-array arguments into arrays and then perform their operations like array_splice() does. This has to be documented of course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-11 13:57:55] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This bug has been fixed in CVS. In case this was a PHP problem, 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/. In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at http://www.php.net/manual/. In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites in short time. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. array_merge() throws E_NOTICEs now in 4.3.x and will throw a warning and fail in 5 for non-array arguments. J ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-11 12:11:09] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jay, it's an undocumented feature. If it is not documented and obscure it's developer's risk to use it. So, I think this is a bug and a check for the input parameter should be performed. A warning throwed in the same way as array_intersect() does will be the consistent way. Opening again :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-11 11:50:39] enygma at phpdeveloper dot org it still seems silly to me that a string passed into an array function was taken without so much as a warning. even more strange that it was suddenly treated as an array and merged into the other valid array. maybe a warning would be enough to deter this in the future? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/25494 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25494&edit=1
