Question

I’m experiencing strange behaviour on a debian server with LAMP-Stack.

This simple test explains my problem:
This is my test.php script:

<?php
  $params = $_GET;
  print_r($params);
?>

If I issue the url: http://localhost/test.php?arr[a]=1&arr[b]=2&arr[c]=3&test=xyz
I would expect the server to return:

    
Array
(
    [arr] => Array
        (
            [a] => 1
            [b] => 2
            [c] => 3
        )
    [test] => xyz
)

But I only get:

Array
(
    [arr] => Array
        (
            [a] => 1
        )
    [test] => xyz
)

I checked the php.ini, apache config and so one. I don’t have a clou why the parameters are not processed correctly.
Even my

$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]

variable shows the correct parameters, but they are simply not processed.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I finally figured the problem out:

This is a bug in PHP 5.3.8 on SUSE Enterprise Linux.
I got the admin to upgrade to PHP 5.3.17 and this misbehavior disappeared.