Re: [PHP-DEV] substr passing null...

2009-02-03 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 27.01.2009, at 17:36, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: showing that passing null as the third param for substr is somehow interpreted to mean no length or something. Is this indeed a bug then? and if so where can I submit it? Please submit a documentation bug if this change is not yet

Re: [PHP-DEV] substr passing null...

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Walther
On 27.01.2009 17:36, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: Johannes Schlüter wrote: I know Ilia recently fixed a few functions that didn't ignore null parameters, but it doesn't appear that substr() was one of them. I guess that's part of the zend_parse_parameters changes. As we now use the s modifier

Re: [PHP-DEV] substr passing null...

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Biggar
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Dan d...@dancryer.com wrote: You're assumption is wrong then, NULL isn't treated as not passing a value. The reason it worked with substr was by pure chance. Out of interest, is there a reason that that is the case? Surely passing null would be best treated

Re: [PHP-DEV] substr passing null...

2009-01-28 Thread Kenan R Sulayman
Why don't make the function return FALSE if parameter equals NULL ? -- (c) Kenan Sulayman Freelance Designer and Programmer Life's Live Poetry 2009/1/28 Paul Biggar paul.big...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Dan d...@dancryer.com wrote: You're assumption is wrong then, NULL

Re: [PHP-DEV] substr passing null...

2009-01-28 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Hello 2009/1/28 Kenan R Sulayman kur...@kkooporation.de: Why don't make the function return FALSE if parameter equals NULL ? Well the $start parameter is required for substr(), so I don't see the deal here? But with now initalizers being added in the manual by Jakub its not much of a deal to

Re: [PHP-DEV] substr passing null...

2009-01-27 Thread Johannes Schlüter
Hi, On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 17:05 -0800, Christopher Jones wrote: Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: Hello, I just have a question, often there are 'optional' parameters to functions, I've always thought that most of the time I could pass null to these if I wanted to leave one empty. This

Re: [PHP-DEV] substr passing null...

2009-01-27 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
Johannes Schlüter wrote: I know Ilia recently fixed a few functions that didn't ignore null parameters, but it doesn't appear that substr() was one of them. I guess that's part of the zend_parse_parameters changes. As we now use the s modifier for instance which might better be a s!. We should

Re: [PHP-DEV] substr passing null...

2009-01-26 Thread Christopher Jones
Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: Hello, I just have a question, often there are 'optional' parameters to functions, I've always thought that most of the time I could pass null to these if I wanted to leave one empty. This has as far as I can tell always worked except recently I was using