From: jcortinap at googlemail dot com
Operating system: Win XP Pro / Win 2003 Server
PHP version: 5.2.4
PHP Bug Type: *Configuration Issues
Bug description: ini_get returns an unexpected value
Description:
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This problem was found trying to set the sendmail_from directive from a
script. This directive is intentionally NOT set on the php.ini (it is
commented out).
According to the documentation, ini_get should return an empty string
since the directive is not set, but it returns a boolean false.
When calling ini_set to set the value, it is expected to get the old value
on success or FALSE on failure, and what we experience is that the setting
is correctly set, but FALSE is returned.
My theory is that ini_set is working correctly returning the "old" value
of the setting, but since the old value is being returned as FALSE from
ini_get, this is what we get as a return from ini_set, so the problem seems
to be in the ini_get function.
Tested with the same results on both 4.4.7 and 5.2.4.
Reproduce code:
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// sendmail_from not set in php.ini. This should return an empty string
$value = ini_get('sendmail_from');
var_dump($value);
// sendmail_from is correctly set, so an empty string should be returned
$old_value = ini_set('sendmail_from', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]');
var_dump($old_value);
// new value of the sendmail_from directive is correctly set
$value = ini_get('sendmail_from');
var_dump($value);
Expected result:
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string(0) ""
string(0) ""
string(16) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Actual result:
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bool(false)
bool(false)
string(16) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=needscript
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=isapi
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Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42657&r=float
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