From: saschagros at bluewin dot ch Operating system: Windows/Linux PHP version: 5.2.0 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: cloning fails on nested SimpleXML-Object
Description: ------------ "clone $simpleXML->subElement1->subElement2" does not work as excepted. It does not return a clone of itself but a clone of it's parent. Tested on: Windows with PHP 5.2.0 Linux with PHP 5.2.0 Linux with PHP 5.0.4 Reproduce code: --------------- $xml = '<?xml version="1.0" ?> <test> <level1> <level2a>text1</level2a> <level2b>text2</level2b> </level1> </test>'; $test = simplexml_load_string($xml); print_r($test->level1->level2a); $test2 = clone $test; print_r($test2->level1->level2a); $test3 = clone $test->level1->level2a; print_r($test3); Expected result: ---------------- SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => text1 ) SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => text1 ) SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => text1 ) Actual result: -------------- SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => text1 ) SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => text1 ) SimpleXMLElement Object ( [level2a] => text1 [level2b] => text2 ) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=39760&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39760&r=mysqlcfg