Why does accessing array index on boolean value does not raise any kind of error?

Question

When I try to access an array by key which is not exists in this array, php will raise \"undefined index\" notice error. When I try to do the same on strings, \"Illegal stri

Answer 1

It's sad, but it's documented behaviour.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

Note:

Accessing variables of other types (not including arrays or objects implementing the appropriate interfaces) using [] or {} silently returns NULL.