some initial gettype work

brettz9 · brettz9 · commit f761394de8af · 2014-03-07T10:40:03.000+08:00
diff --git a/functions/var/gettype.js b/functions/var/gettype.js
@@ -6,22 +6,23 @@ function gettype(mixed_var) {
   // improved by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
   //    input by: KELAN
   //  depends on: is_float
+  //        note: php.js treats objects as associative arrays, so unless config is set, it will return "array" for objects
   //        note: 1.0 is simplified to 1 before it can be accessed by the function, this makes
   //        note: it different from the PHP implementation. We can't fix this unfortunately.
   //   example 1: gettype(1);
   //   returns 1: 'integer'
   //   example 2: gettype(undefined);
   //   returns 2: 'undefined'
-  //   example 3: gettype({0: 'Kevin van Zonneveld'});
-  //   returns 3: 'object'
-  //   example 4: gettype('foo');
-  //   returns 4: 'string'
-  //   example 5: gettype({0: function () {return false;}});
-  //   returns 5: 'object'
-  //   example 6: gettype({0: 'test', length: 1, splice: function () {}});
-  //   example 6: gettype(['test']);
-  //   returns 6: 'object'
+  //   example 3: gettype('foo');
+  //   returns 3: 'string'
+  //   example 4: gettype(['test']);
+  //   returns 4: 'array'
+  //   example 5: gettype({0: 'Kevin van Zonneveld'});
+  //   returns 5: 'array'
+  //   example 6: gettype({0: function () {return false;}});
   //   returns 6: 'array'
+  //   example 7: gettype({0: 'test', length: 1, splice: function () {}});
+  //   returns 7: 'array'
 
   var s = typeof mixed_var,
     name;
@@ -37,7 +38,22 @@ function gettype(mixed_var) {
     if (mixed_var !== null) { // From: http://javascript.crockford.com/remedial.html
       if (typeof mixed_var.length === 'number' && !(mixed_var.propertyIsEnumerable('length')) && typeof mixed_var
         .splice === 'function') {
-        s = 'array';
+        
+        // BEGIN REDUNDANT
+        this.php_js = this.php_js || {};
+        this.php_js.ini = this.php_js.ini || {};
+        // END REDUNDANT
+
+        // Call ini_set('phpjs.objectsAsArrays', 0) to disallow objects as arrays
+        ini = this.php_js.ini['phpjs.objectsAsArrays'];
+        if  (!ini || ( // if it's not set to 0 and it's not 'off', check for objects as arrays
+            (parseInt(ini.local_value, 10) !== 0 && (!ini.local_value.toLowerCase || ini.local_value.toLowerCase() !==
+                'off')))) {
+            s = 'object';
+        }
+        else {
+            s = 'array';
+        }
       } else if (mixed_var.constructor && getFuncName(mixed_var.constructor)) {
         name = getFuncName(mixed_var.constructor);
         if (name === 'Date') {
