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Bug #61681 Malformed grammar
Submitted: 2012-04-09 15:33 UTC Modified: 2012-04-09 21:59 UTC
From: [email protected] Assigned: nikic (profile)
Status: Closed Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.3.10 OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-04-09 15:33 UTC] [email protected] 
Description:
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if use '@', you can call function in a string substitution context.

Test script:
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<?php
$la = "ooxx";

$a = "${@substr('laruence', 0, 2)}"; 

echo $a;

Expected result:
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PHP Error: syntax error 

Actual result:
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ooxx

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 [2012-04-09 15:34 UTC] [email protected]
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: dmitry
 [2012-04-09 15:34 UTC] [email protected] 
Dmitry, do you think this is okey? 

or should we document this behavior?
 [2012-04-09 15:58 UTC] [email protected] 
This is typically a limitation of our grammar.

We accept ${ string_varname }
and ${ expr }

due to the fact that ${asd} is not accessing the variable named after the 
constant asd's value.

When the lexer looks at ${ function_call() } it finds ${ T_STRING_VARNAME() }

which will not parse. We might be able to fix it by looking ahead in the
<ST_LOOKING_FOR_VARNAME>{LABEL} { rule and detect cases where it should be a 
T_STRING, i.e if the char after it is either } [ or {.
 [2012-04-09 17:21 UTC] [email protected] 
Automatic comment on behalf of nikic
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=b233de098daceb145b9a5009b8861ebb9df5c961
Log: Fix bug #61681: Malformed grammar
 [2012-04-09 21:59 UTC] [email protected]
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed -Assigned To: dmitry +Assigned To: nikic
 [2012-04-09 21:59 UTC] [email protected] 
This bug has been fixed in SVN.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.

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http://windows.php.net/snapshots/
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2012-04-18 09:45 UTC] [email protected] 
Automatic comment on behalf of nikic
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=b233de098daceb145b9a5009b8861ebb9df5c961
Log: Fix bug #61681: Malformed grammar
 [2012-07-24 23:36 UTC] [email protected] 
Automatic comment on behalf of nikic
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=b233de098daceb145b9a5009b8861ebb9df5c961
Log: Fix bug #61681: Malformed grammar
 [2013-11-17 09:32 UTC] [email protected] 
Automatic comment on behalf of nikic
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=b233de098daceb145b9a5009b8861ebb9df5c961
Log: Fix bug #61681: Malformed grammar
 
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