From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system: several
PHP version: 4.2.3
PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem
Bug description: reproducable, freaky parse error in 'here document' structure
I've tested this on PHP 4.2.3 for OSX, Open BSD, Linux...
If you leave any whitespace after the closing tag of a here
document structure (not sure if that's what it is called,
like in Perl) a parse error will occur but never for the
correct line. This seems like a bug to me because a semi-
colon should terminate the code allowing the programmer to
put comments or whatever after the semi-colon.
Here is an example:
$variable = "variable";
$someVariable = <<<hereDocument
<html>
<body>
<b>text text $variable
testing here document</b>
</body>
</html>
hereDocument; // closing comment or just whitespace
echo $someVariable;
After the closing "hereDocument;" if you leave any
whitespace (other than a carriage return) or text, a parse
error is generated but the line number never leads you to
the right place. This can be very confusing if you are
working on a large class (like I was) and you left a tab or
space after a closing tag. I'm not sure how consciously
supported the here document structure is but this is worth
addressing since here documents can be very useful for
storing large variables containing HTML code with double
and single quotes, for example. While I'm submitting this
bug, I might as well point
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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20814&edit=1
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Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=needtrace
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=notwrong
Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20814&r=isapi
