From: luca dot fabbro at procne dot it Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.3.10 PHP Bug Type: Session related Bug description: Pointer to item in $_SESSION superglobal causes troubles
Description: ------------ Seems that once you've declared a pointer to one of the items in session superglobal any other assignment of a variable to that session item is alwayys treated as a pointer. Tested on various versions of php 4.3 till 4.3.1 Register globals are OFF php 5.0.4 having same error Reproduce code: --------------- session_start(); for ($i = 0; $i < 2; $i++) { $_SESSION['storage'][$i] = array('items'=>$i); } $items = count($_SESSION['storage']); for ($i = 0; $i < $items; $i++) { $pointer = &$_SESSION['storage'][$i]; // unset($pointer); // Uncomment me to let me work properly } $gitems = $_SESSION['storage']; foreach ($gitems as $key=>$val) { $gitems[$key]['foo'] = time(); } Expected result: ---------------- $_SESSION = Array ( [storage] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [items] => 0 ) [1] => Array ( [items] => 1 ) ) ) Actual result: -------------- $_SESSION = Array ( [storage] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [items] => 0 [foo] => 1118913576 ) [1] => Array ( [items] => 1 [foo] => 1118913576 ) ) ) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=33360&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33360&r=mysqlcfg