From: mgraham at etsy dot com Operating system: Linux PHP version: 5.4.14 Package: Class/Object related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:Differentiate between member function call on a null and non-null, non-objects
Description: ------------ The error message for "Call to a member function on a non-object" is not as helpful as it could be. It would be really great if it would distinguish when the variable is null instead of another type of actual data such as an integer, string or array. This is helpful so that when fixing this issues, one can tell from the logs if a null check is sufficient or if I need to find out where the wrong type of data is being created. Test script: --------------- <?php $x = (isset($argv[1]) && $argv[1] == 'null') ? null : 'non-null-non-object'; $x->fail(); Expected result: ---------------- Null is a special kind of non-object, so if the variable is null, the error message should be different to indicate that it's null. mgraham@vm:~/development/tmp$ php bug.php null Fatal error: Call to a member function fail() on null in /home/mgraham/development/tmp/bug.php on line 3 mgraham@vm:~/development/tmp$ php bug.php Fatal error: Call to a member function fail() on a non-object in /home/mgraham/development/tmp/bug.php on line 3 mgraham@vm:~/development/tmp$ Even better would be to say in the error message what the type of the variable is for, integer, array, string, whatever. Actual result: -------------- When running this script, there is no information about what type of non-object it was. mgraham@vm:~/development/tmp$ php bug.php null Fatal error: Call to a member function fail() on a non-object in /home/mgraham/development/tmp/bug.php on line 3 mgraham@vm:~/development/tmp$ php bug.php Fatal error: Call to a member function fail() on a non-object in /home/mgraham/development/tmp/bug.php on line 3 mgraham@vm:~/development/tmp$ -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64744&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64744&r=mysqlcfg
