Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60395&edit=1
ID: 60395
Updated by: larue...@php.net
Reported by: nh at ngin dot de
Summary: Null byte in source causes file to be ignored, no
error or warning reported
Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: Unknown/Other Function
Operating System: any
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
you must compile your php with zend-multibyte supporting.
try this, php -ddetect_unicode = 0 test.php
I think this is not a bug, but a side-effect of zend multibyte auto-unicode-
detection :)
Previous Comments:
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[2011-11-26 23:17:30] nh at ngin dot de
Description:
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NULL bytes in the source code seem to confuse PHP. See test script below. The
code in the file is not executed, and no error or warning is shown.
The result is the same if you run it from the command line or from a web server
(ruling out a web server problem).
This bug has been discovered on MacOS X (10.6.8) with a default, unpatched PHP
5.3.6; but it has been reproduced (so far) as well on Debian 2.6.26-2 with the
most recent version of PHP.
It does not matter where the null byte(s) is/are placed. They can even be
inside
a comment!
I discovered this bug by accident as I had inadvertently copied a NULL-byte
into
a comment inside a file that I was require()'ing from elsewhere. The
require()'d
code was not run, but, even with error_reporting(-1), no warning or error
message was displayed. I couldn't figure out what was wrong until I looked at
the file with a text editor that can make non-printing characters visible.
Removing the NULL byte fixed the problem.
Test script:
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This is a 1-line PHP script that contains a single NULL byte:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/257587/test.php
Just showing printable chars, the contents of this file is:
<?php echo "Hi"; ?>
The NULL byte is located after the closing semicolon. (However, the exact
location is irrelevant in order to reproduce the bug.)
Expected result:
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The string 'Hi' should be output.
Actual result:
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Instead, PHP outputs a number of non-printing characters (usually shown as
question marks). Depending on the position and number of NULL bytes in the
source
code, the output may also be nothing at all.
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