From: soapergem at gmail dot com
Operating system: WinXP
PHP version: 5.3.0
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Change the behavior of array_fill ever so slightly
Description:
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Right now array_fill() returns false and throws an E_WARNING if its second
parameter ($num) is less than 1. This is counter-intuitive. As you know,
the purpose of array_fill is to create an array with the given number of
elements, all preset to one value. The restriction SHOULD be that $num
cannot be less than 0, rather than saying it cannot be less than 1.
Why? Because an array of zero-length is a perfectly valid thing in PHP. I
ran into a scenario where I was using array fill and $num was a dynamic
value. I would have never expected that PHP would actually throw a warning
if I told it to create an empty array. I had to write a wrapper function to
accommodate, which is stupid. Just allow me to create an empty array like
any reasonable person would expect!
Reproduce code:
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<?php
$array1 = array_fill(0, -1, 1);
$array2 = array_fill(0, 0, 1);
$array3 = array_fill(0, 1, 1);
var_dump($array1);
var_dump($array2);
var_dump($array3);
?>
Expected result:
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bool(false)
array(0) {
}
array(1) {
[0]=>
int(1)
}
PHP Warning: array_fill(): Number of elements must be nonnegative in
C:\test.php on line 3
Actual result:
--------------
bool(false)
bool(false)
array(1) {
[0]=>
int(1)
}
PHP Warning: array_fill(): Number of elements must be positive in
C:\test.php on line 3
PHP Warning: array_fill(): Number of elements must be positive in
C:\test.php on line 4
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Fixed in SVN:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=fixed
Fixed in SVN and need be documented:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=alreadyfixed
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Try newer version:
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Not developer issue:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=support
Expected behavior:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=php4
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=dst
IIS Stability:
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Install GNU Sed:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=float
No Zend Extensions:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49824&r=mysqlcfg
