From:             corrodedmonkee at gmail dot com
Operating system: Ubuntu/Windows
PHP version:      5.2.10
PHP Bug Type:     Variables related
Bug description:  Numeric Variable Names

Description:
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You can create variables with numeric only names with double dollars. It
can be assigned data with double dollar also. 

It will not throw any errors or warnings.

Reproduce code:
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---
>From manual page: language.variables.variable
---

<?php

$foo = 123;
$bar = 456;
$$foo = $bar;

echo '<pre>';
print_r(get_defined_vars());

?>

Expected result:
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PHP Fatal Error

Actual result:
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[foo] => 123
[bar] => 456
[123] => 456

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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2):        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=trysnapshot52
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3):        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=trysnapshot53
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0):        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS:                        
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in CVS and need be documented: 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:                      
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:               
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=needscript
Try newer version:                   
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:                 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=support
Expected behavior:                   
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48879&r=mysqlcfg

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