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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:00:34 +0200
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Subject: Re: E_NOTICE/E_STRICT/E_WARNING thrown on bad arrays initialization?
From: r.korving@xit.nl ("Ron Korving")

I agree. I've always found it weird that no notice is thrown in this
situation. Still I discourage people to code like this.

Ron


"Etienne Kneuss" <colder@php.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> As you surely know, arrays are often badly initialized:
>
> <?php
> // $array is undefined
> $array['index'] = 'value';
>  ?>
>
> Wouldn't it be such a good thing to let the programmers know that this
> is a bad habit, by throwing a +/- pedantic error ? I'm not sure which
> type would suit for it, but I think its important enough to throw a
> E_NOTICE.
>
> It can be dangerous if the script is ran on an environment where
> register_globals is enabled.
> I wrote a paper about this kind of leak if you can't imagine an example:
> http://www.colder.ch/news/09-04-2005/4/another-example-showing-t.html
>
> Thanks for your interrest
>
> -- 
> Etienne Kneuss
>
> http://www.colder.ch/
> colder@php.net