0000174: 'echo' command does not work in eval function

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0000174	Xdebug	Uncategorized	public	2006-04-19 17:00	2009-12-27 16:54

Reporter	beandog	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	not fixable

Summary	0000174: 'echo' command does not work in eval function
Description	When doing an 'eval' through the DBGp protocol in XDebug, valid echo commands are not executed and return error messages.
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Operating System	Windows XP Pro SP2
PHP Version	5.0.5

derick 2009-12-27 16:54 administrator ~0001211	You're correct that this doesn't work; however, internally Xdebug uses Zend's zend_do_string() which always prepends "return " to the string-to-be-parsed to be able to return the value of evaluated statements to be passed back. Obviously the string: return echo "too\n"; creates a parse error. I can't fix this unless I repeat much of the Zend API functions, and I don't think it's worth it. Also, print "too\n"; works just fine (As it's a statement for PHP and returns something).