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ID: 43936 Comment by: thomas at sibben dot nl Reported by: james dot laver at gmail dot com Summary: __empty() magic method Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Class/Object related Operating System: GNU/Linux PHP Version: 5.2.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The documentation states: "empty() only checks variables as anything else will result in a parse error" if 'everything else' is a __get() returning an array with a value in it, it returns TRUE, Ubuntu 10.04 PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.17 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-08-24 00:40:26] chrisstocktonaz at gmail dot com I made the start of a patch for this, but there is some issues that would need to be worked out with has_property calls, it seems oddly interfaced with by the various callers. http://pastebin.com/d5gQycDB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-23 16:08:03] ka...@php.net Fixed the overloading property vs language construct issue in the documentation. This feature request is still valid, so moving it to be one instead of a documentation issue ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-23 16:06:52] ka...@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of kalle Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=304662 Log: Added a remark about overloaded properties and language constructs (Bug #43936) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-06-30 13:02:14] paj...@php.net Let document the __isset requirements better, when one relies on empty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-06-30 12:00:35] icy at lighttpd dot net Simple test script to trigger the bug: <?php class Foo { public $vars; function Foo() { $this->vars['bar'] = 1; } function __get($var) { return $this->vars[$var]; } } $foo = new Foo; var_dump(empty($foo->bar)); $baz = $foo->bar; var_dump(empty($baz)); Expected result: ---------------- bool(false) bool(false) Actual result: -------------- bool(true) bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43936 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43936&edit=1
