[NETBEANS-2283] Netbeans formats content in php strings

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 10.0
• Component/s: php - Editor
• Labels: formatting php

Environment

Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE 10.0 (Build 20190122-unknown-revn)
Java: 1.8.0_151; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.151-b12
Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_151-b12
System: Windows 10 version 10.0 running on amd64; Cp1252; de_DE (nb)
User directory:C:\Users\AlexanderSchreiner\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\10.0
Cache directory:
C:\Users\AlexanderSchreiner\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\10.0

• Flags: Important
• External issue URL: https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251057
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alexander Schreiner
• Created: 20/Mar/19 15:44
• Updated: 03/Nov/20 15:46
• Resolved: 11/Aug/19 05:58

Description

NetBeans formats PHP string literal content. This can lead to bugs when using PHP functions like header (https://secure.php.net/manual/de/function.header.php). 

Before: 

header('Location: /some/dir?parameter=value');

After: 

header('Location: /some/dir?parameter = value');

Expected:

header('Location: /some/dir?parameter=value');

 

Since spaces in URLs are encoded with %20, this will return an invalid URL and therefore a 404 Error!

 

Repro:

I somehow can't reproduce the bug on a regular basis. But it occurs in the worst times, like I mentioned above, when I try to use PHP functions like header(). 

I feel like it has a correlation with other formatting. When the file is already correctly formatted, i can't reproduce the bug. But in big files, let's say 150 to 300 lines, it occurs more often.