--TEST-- Bug #38406 (crash when assigning objects to SimpleXML attributes) --EXTENSIONS-- simplexml --FILE-- '); $item->attribute = 'something'; var_dump($item->attribute); $item->otherAttribute = $item->attribute; var_dump($item->otherAttribute); $a = array(); try { $item->$a = new stdclass; } catch (TypeError $exception) { echo $exception->getMessage() . "\n"; } echo "Done\n"; ?> --EXPECTF-- object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (1) { [0]=> string(9) "something" } object(SimpleXMLElement)#%d (1) { [0]=> string(9) "something" } Warning: Array to string conversion in %s on line %d It's not possible to assign a complex type to properties, stdClass given Done