From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system: Debian Linux 2.2
PHP version: 4.0.3pl1
PHP Bug Type: Variables related
Bug description: Stange behaviour in for loop with negative values
Hi,
I tried to do something which was not really weird, but the the output astounded me. I
tried to get opinions of two of my friends on this, but they didn't really help. I
feel really stupid, because this looks much more like one of my programming errors
then a bug.
I tried to execute this script:
<?
echo "<H1>Start Day = $start_day,View_Days=$view_days</H1>";
for ($itchy = $start_day; $itchy <= ($start_day+$view_days);$itchy++) {
$this_mktime=mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")+$itchy,date("Y"));
echo date("D j M",$this_mktime)."<BR>\n";
}
?>
I saved it in a file called test.php and called it from a website. like this:
www.yoursite/test.php?start_day=4&view_days=10
The output was, as expected:
Start Day = 4, View_Days= 10
Sun 1 Apr
Mon 2 Apr
Tue 3 Apr
Wed 4 Apr
Thu 5 Apr
Fri 6 Apr
Sat 7 Apr
Sun 8 Apr
Mon 9 Apr
Tue 10 Apr
Wed 11 Apr
(Ok, it shows 11 days, but what the heck).
Now, I tried to do this with some date in the past:
www.yoursite/test.php?start_day=-2&view_days=10
The output is an endless loop with starts with this:
Start Day = -2, View_Days= 10
Mon 26 Mar
Sun 25 Mar
Sat 24 Mar
Fri 23 Mar
Thu 22 Mar
Wed 21 Mar
Tue 20 Mar
Mon 19 Mar
Wed 28 Mar
Tue 27 Mar
Mon 26 Mar
Sun 25 Mar
Sat 24 Mar
Fri 23 Mar
Thu 22 Mar
Wed 21 Mar
Tue 20 Mar
Mon 19 Mar
Wed 28 Mar
Tue 27 Mar
Mon 26 Mar
Sun 25 Mar
Sat 24 Mar
Fri 23 Mar
Thu 22 Mar
Wed 21 Mar
Like I said, i feel really stupid now. What am I overlooking ?
Much regards, keep up the good work,
Ace Suares
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