From: soywiz at hotmail dot com
Operating system: Windows
PHP version: 4.3.4
PHP Bug Type: Variables related
Bug description: Variable reference assignments in functions
Description:
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Within a function a reference to another variable cannot be assigned to
its to a global variable.
I also proved this example in php 4.3.3
Sorry by my bad english
In spanish: Dentro de una funci�n no se le puede asignar a una variable
global una referencia a otra variable (tambi�n global).
He probado este ejemplo en php 4.3.3 y php 4.3.4
Reproduce code:
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<?php
$a = 'a';
$b = 'b';
function f() {
global $a, $b;
$b = &$a; // Fails
}
f();
echo $b;
$b = &$a; // Works
echo $b;
?>
Expected result:
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aa
Actual result:
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ba
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Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26307&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26307&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26307&r=php3
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