ID:               26063
 Updated by:       iliaa@[...].net
 Reported By:      mario at erphesfurt dot de
-Status:           Open
+Status:           Bogus
 Bug Type:         Arrays related
 Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux, glibc2.3
 PHP Version:      5CVS-2003-10-31 (dev)
 New Comment:

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

As with all other functions in PHP, when invalid parameters are passed
E_WARNING is generated. E_ERROR is intended for unrecoverable errors,
such as parse errors.


Previous Comments:
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[2003-10-31 15:29:23] mario at erphesfurt dot de

Description:
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see also:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25494

Hi,

The array_merge() fix introduced into beta2 broke my scripts, 'cause
they
relied upon array_merge() to return something even if some of the
passed
parameters were undef.

I used to merge values into my arrays that way, even if it was unclear
wether there was previously data in it:

$my_array = array_merge(
   $my_array,
   array(
      "fill_up" =>  "if_unset",

      "this" =>  "too",

   )
);

Which now doesn't work any longer. - this requires some code bloat to
work around now (introducing a user-level array_merge).

I don't believe the current
ext/standard/array.c:php_array_merge_wrapper
addresses the problem described in #25494, it now just fails and sends
eventual paramaters of PHP:ewiki_merge() to hell, making it
incompatible
to previous versions (PHP4,beta1).

Why wasn't just a warning message sufficient?!

If you guys really like to change the way that PHP function was used,
then
you could replace E_WARNING with E_ERROR inside the array.c on line
2222 -
this would be less bogus than a _warning_ message that silently kills
data.

mario




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