Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:41:15 UTC
in /wiki/config/index.php on line 421 wrong operation applied to arrays on my PHP 5.1.4 $array1 + $array2 cause replacing $array1[0] = $array2[0] and so on using array_marge($array1,$array2) solves the problem
Applying said patch causes running index.php to halt after the following initialisation sequence of the install page. The patch given appears to break MediaWiki. WONTFIX. * PHP 5.1.6-1 installed * Found database drivers for: MySQL * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP's memory_limit is 50M. If this is too low, installation may fail! * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator or APC. Object caching functions cannot be used.
The concern appears to be correct, regardless of whether the patch is. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.array.php clearly states that $array1 + $array2 behaves as Keymone says. array_merge() shouldn't cause any problems, are you sure that it's not your testing procedure at fault?
I tested the "install" procedure twice. I opened config.php once, applied the patch, and then refreshed config.php. The element at fault is clearly the patch itself.
did you looked at resulting array? $a + $b will be a union only if it's associated array. in case of simple array: array(1,2,3,4) + array(5,6,7) == array(5,6,7,4) it's noted in php help also: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.array.php maybe there is another solution for the problem
Fixed in r17380
