From: frederic dot hardy at mageekbox dot net
Operating system: macos X mountain lion
PHP version: 5.4.9
Package: Scripting Engine problem
Bug Type: Bug
Bug description:class alias are not used/resolved by type hinting
Description:
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Imagine that you have a A class.
Imagine that you have an alias B on this A class.
Imagine that you have a function/method which require a B as argument.
So, currently, it's not possible to pass a A instance as argument to this
function/method.
Test script:
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<?php
class A {}
class_alias('A', 'B');
function foo(B $b) {}
foo(new A());
Expected result:
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Nothing.
Actual result:
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PHP Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to foo() must be an instance
of B,
instance of A given, called in /path/to/test/file.php on line 6 and defined
in
/path/to/test/file.php on line 5
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Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63592&edit=1
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Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4):
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=trysnapshot54
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https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=trysnapshot53
Try a snapshot (trunk):
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=trysnapshottrunk
Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=fixed
Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=needscript
Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=support
Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=php4
Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=dst
IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=float
No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63592&r=mysqlcfg
