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ID: 53727 Updated by: dmi...@php.net Reported by: mattknight at xymail dot co dot uk Summary: Inconsistent behavior of is_subclass_of with interfaces -Status: Assigned +Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: Class/Object related Operating System: Gentoo x86_64 PHP Version: 5.3.5 Assigned To: dmitry Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: 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/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-04 10:55:39] dmi...@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of dmitry Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=312904 Log: Fixed bug #53727 (Inconsistent behavior of is_subclass_of with interfaces) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-30 18:45:09] ralph at smashlabs dot com Dmitry, The patch called fix-is_subclass_of-PHP_5_3.diff does the following: * Alters the existing Zend/tests/is_a.phpt to alter the bad expectation, * Adds a new test file for is_subclass_of() as Zend/tests/is_subclass_of.phpt * Finally alters is_a_impl() in the following ways: * If an object was provided as the first parameter, and we are inside of an is_subclass_of call (known by the flag only_subclass), then assign the class entry of the object * Next, determine if the instance_ce provided is the same class entry as that we are testing against (parameter 2 of the is_subclass_of() call ... if it is, return false * Now that we know the instance_ce is not the same as the class entry for the test class, allow is_a_impl to pass these class entries to instanceof_function, and return that value It is pretty straight forward, and any way I look at it, there are few consequences to this patch. Thanks, Ralph ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-13 09:13:50] mattknight at xymail dot co dot uk Yes, it would also be fine to return false when comparing against an ancestral interface, just so long as the behaviour is consistent. Expected result: ---------------- false true false true ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-12 18:06:36] chris at cmbuckley dot co dot uk Apologies; I actually meant: false true false true ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-12 17:58:37] chris at cmbuckley dot co dot uk One could argue that the expected result is actually: true true false false since neither classes are technically "subclasses" of the interface. Either way, the actual behaviour is undesirable :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53727 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53727&edit=1