Strange bug with arrays on Mac OS X

[Anon]

The following chunk of code:

<?php
$whatever['test'] = 'abcdefg';
print "TEST: '" . $whatever['test'] . "'<br>\n";
?>

on my PowerBook running Mac OS X 10.1.2 yeilds the following output:

TEST: 'a'

Uploading the code to my RedHat Linux production server produces the correct output of:

TEST: 'abcdefg'

This is the case for both the version of PHP that is pre-installed in Mac OS X 10.1.2 and my hand compiled version of PHP 4.1.1.

Am I missing some simple setting or flag, or is there a major bug in PHP on Mac OS X?

Thanks in advance,

• Robert

[Anon]

your OSX install seems to not recognize $whatever['test'] as its associative value, but is instead returning $whatever[0] I think. (seems like I read you can treat a string as an array somewhere). Maybe there is some setting turned on/off on your OSX install that is messing this up?

just guessing.