Doc #76588 [Ver->Csd]: var_export change variable state

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76588&edit=1

 ID:                 76588
 Updated by:         [email protected]
 Reported by:        sukei13 at gmail dot com
 Summary:            var_export change variable state
-Status:             Verified
+Status:             Closed
 Type:               Documentation Problem
 Package:            Date/time related
 PHP Version:        Irrelevant
-Assigned To:        
+Assigned To:        derick
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed
in the latest released version of PHP, which you can download at
http://www.php.net/downloads.php

This is already documented on the introduction page of the DateInterval class.

https://www.php.net/dateinterval :

Since there is no well defined way to compare date intervals, DateInterval instances are incomparable.


Previous Comments:
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[2021-04-07 16:40:58] [email protected]

See also bug #74054, which is a request to change that.

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[2020-06-14 22:26:27] [email protected]

Comparing DateInterval instances cannot be well defined (consider
e.g. P1M and P30D); as of PHP 7.4.0, comparisons raise a warning
and evaluate to FALSE.  Prior to that version, their behavior was,
let's say, undefined.

While that change is noted in the migration guide[1], it is not
yet documented in the manual proper (not sure, *where* this should
be documented).

[1] <https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration74.incompatible.php#migration74.incompatible.datetime>

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[2018-07-06 13:37:46] sukei13 at gmail dot com

Doing further tests, it appears that the print_r function has the same behavior as var_export.

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[2018-07-06 13:30:04] sukei13 at gmail dot com

Description:
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The result of a comparison (soft: ==) between two date intervals change when the variable has been exported (var_export) earlier. The var_export function affect the internal state of the DateInterval object in some way. The following test script show this weird behavior. Note that this test has been made on other objects too (such as DateTime or DateTimeImmutable) but DateInterval seems to be the only object involved in this issue.

Test script:
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<?php

$a = new DateInterval('P2Y4DT6H8M');
$b = new DateInterval('P2Y4DT6H8M');

var_dump($a == $b); // true

var_export($b, true);

var_dump($a == $b); // false

Expected result:
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bool(true)
bool(true)

Actual result:
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bool(true)
bool(false)


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