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jimfog

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I am using a function that goes updating the password of the user with all the relevant checks in it:

function update_password($post,$email)    {	   global $conn;	   $passerrors=array();	   $current=mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['current']);	   $new=mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['new']);	   $retypednew=mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['retypednew']); 	  	  	  	   if($new!=$retypednew)		 {return $passerrors['notsame']='.........';}	   if(check_passwd($new)==false)		 {return $passerrors['smallpass']='............';}				   $conn->set_charset("utf8");		   $result = $conn->query('select password							    from credentials							    where email="'. $email.'"');		  		   if(!$result){		 throw new Exception('............');		 return false;		  }	    elseif( $result ->num_rows<0)		  {		  return $passerrors['nopassindb']='........';		  }		  else		  {echo 'thank you';}	  	      }

Above, you will not find the update query because I am doing some testing first. The problem is this. I pass the function to a variable and the use a foreach loop to echo if any errors were found:

  $passerrors=update_password($_POST,$_SESSION['valid_user']);				    var_dump( $passerrors);                     foreach ($passerrors as $error) {					   echo $error;					  				   }

I get this message:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\Apache24\htdocs\Appointments\Administrator\profile.php on line 440

The weird is that var_dump DOES output the error founds in the function(for example in the case were the supplied password is below 6 characters). What can be wrong here?

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You THINK you are returning an array with the value of $passerrors. That would look like this:

return $passerrors;

What you are actually returning is the RESULT of an assignment:

return $passerrors['nopassindb']='........'

Since the result of a simple assignment is the value being assigned, you are actually returning '........', which of course cannot be passed on to foreach.

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You THINK you are returning an array with the value of $passerrors. That would look like this:
return $passerrors;

What you are actually returning is the RESULT of an assignment:

return $passerrors['nopassindb']='........'

Since the result of a simple assignment is the value being assigned, you are actually returning '........', which of course cannot be passed on to foreach.

WHat you say is verified by the fact that I used is_array to make some testing and the result was what was returned was not an array-as you say.hm...ok how to fix it?
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I just returned the array after the assignment and that solved the issue. Thanks.

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