Description: ------------ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4553889/pear-outputs-is- var For some situations i have strange behavior after calling pear commands from command line like "pear list", phpUnitTest. I get IS_VAR outputs After some debugging mystery haven't disappeared. class PEAR_PackageFile, method factory orginal line: $version = $version{0}; and this line throws this strange output. I replaced to similar functionality $version = substr($version,0,1); and output IS_VAR disappered.

Based on your stackoverflow post, this also happens when you run the phpunit commandline to run tests?

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I've also run into this issue, and the above fix worked. My PHP Info: [root@rtool-deployer-dev PEAR]# php -v PHP 5.3.6 (cli) (built: Mar 18 2011 14:53:24) Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies with Xdebug v2.1.1, Copyright (c) 2002-2011, by Derick Rethans

Just some more information. The IS_VAR is gone from PEAR list, but on other operations, such as "install" I am getting it. I am also receiving it in PECL: [root@rtool-deployer-dev libssh2-1.2.7]# pear channel-discover pear.phing.info PHP Warning: Module 'ssh2' already loaded in Unknown on line 0 IS_VAR IS_VAR Adding Channel "pear.phing.info" succeeded Discovery of channel "pear.phing.info" succeeded Here is my system information: [root@rtool-deployer-dev libssh2-1.2.7]# uname -a Linux rtool-deployer-dev 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri Oct 29 14:21:16 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@rtool-deployer-dev libssh2-1.2.7]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga) [root@rtool-deployer-dev libssh2-1.2.7]# php -v PHP Warning: Module 'ssh2' already loaded in Unknown on line 0 PHP 5.3.6 (cli) (built: Mar 18 2011 14:53:24) Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies with Xdebug v2.1.1, Copyright (c) 2002-2011, by Derick Rethans

Actually, I believe I have solved it. I have the xdebug extension, and disabling the following parameter seems to have made the message go away: xdebug.auto_trace = 0 It was previously set to 1

This was a bug in xdebug which has been fixed. See the stackoverflow question for details.