[PHP-BUG] Bug #51527 [NEW]: is_callable() returning true for non-static callbacks

[email protected] ("[email protected]") Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:07:17 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups php.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From:             weierophinney
Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      5.3.2
Package:          Class/Object related
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:is_callable() returning true for non-static callbacks

Description:
------------
is_callable() is returning a false-positive for callbacks that reference
non-
static methods. As an example, if I have defined a class 'Foo' with an
instance 
(i.e., non-static) method 'bar', and define the callback "array('Foo',
'bar')", 
is_callable() will falsely return true.

Additionally, if you then pass this callback to call_user_func(), this
latter 
function will actually try to call the method statically -- and raise an 
E_STRICT about the callback being invalid. If the method has any references
to 
$this, it then fails with an E_FATAL, but otherwise it will run the method
as if 
it were static.

This behavior is unexpected, and unintuitive. Calling non-static methods as
if 
they were static, even when they do not reference $this, violates
visibility. I 
would expect is_callable() to return false in these instances, and for 
call_user_func() to immediately raise an E_FATAL if the method is not
defined as 
static.

Test script:
---------------
class Foo
{
    public function bar()
    {
        return 'foo bar';
    }
}

$callback = array('Foo', 'bar');
if (is_callable($callback)) {
    echo call_user_func($callback);
}

Expected result:
----------------
No output.

Actual result:
--------------
PHP Strict Standards:  call_user_func() expects parameter 1 to be a valid 
callback, non-static method Foo::bar() should not be called statically

Strict Standards: call_user_func() expects parameter 1 to be a valid
callback, 
non-static method Test\Foo::bar() should not be called statically
foo bar

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