[2011-08-30 20:21 UTC] yaauie@php.net

Description:
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Calls to the Win32 API MessageBox block automated testing. When the automation 
is spawned by a timed script, that script does not have access to the UI to 
close these messages.

3 places where MessageBox is called:

Zend/zend_ini_parser.y:179 - instead of printing an INI parse error to stderr, 
*always* when PHP_WIN32 is defined. This means that the test suite does not 
catch the error on Windows machines (example parse error directive `php -n -d 
foo="a=href"`) and execution of automated tests is blocked until a user can 
click through.
 - example 

main/main.c:984 - in addition to other logging, but only if 
display_startup_errors is true and the error type is either E_CORE_WARNING or 
E_CORE_ERROR.
 - since display_startup_errors is set to true by the testing suite (and is 
required for many tests to pass), I cannot disable it. Perhaps a new ini 
directive should be created instead of having this one overloaded?

sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c:1768 - only when PHP_DEBUG is defined. I don't have a big 
problem with this, since it is debug code, but perhaps it too could be governed 
by an ini directive.

Test script:
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pass a deliberately-defective ini directive:

`php -n -d a=b=c -v`


Expected result:
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--STDERR--
php: syntax error, unexpected '=' in Unknown on line 7
--STDOUT--
PHP 5.5.0-dev (cli) (built: Aug 30 2011 18:14:14)
Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies


Actual result:
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--BLOCKING-MESSAGEBOX--
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PHP Error
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syntax error, unexpected '=' in Unknown on line 7

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OK   
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--STDERR--(nothing)
--STDOUT--
PHP 5.5.0-dev (cli) (built: Aug 30 2011 18:14:14)
Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies