diff --git a/ChangeLog.adoc b/ChangeLog.adoc
index 30859b616..58fac9a04 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.adoc
+++ b/ChangeLog.adoc
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Bug fixes::
   * irc: fix duplicated channels in autojoin option when autojoin_dynamic is enabled (issue #1795)
   * irc: fix display of TOPIC and QUIT messages with an empty trailing parameter (issue #1797)
   * javascript: fix return of long value in functions infolist_time, hdata_long and hdata_time
+  * php: fix function hdata_compare
   * relay: fix parsing of IRC messages received from clients (issue #1796)
   * scripts: fix issue with year ≥ 2038 in functions infolist_new_var_time, print_date_tags and print_y_date_tags (plugins: python/lua/tcl/guile/javascript)
   * scripts: fix issue with long interval in function hook_timer (plugins: python/ruby/lua/tcl/guile/javascript/php)
diff --git a/src/plugins/php/weechat-php-api.c b/src/plugins/php/weechat-php-api.c
index b28561040..7a7ee4233 100644
--- a/src/plugins/php/weechat-php-api.c
+++ b/src/plugins/php/weechat-php-api.c
@@ -5279,7 +5279,7 @@ API_FUNC(hdata_compare)
     hdata = (struct t_hdata *)API_STR2PTR(ZSTR_VAL(z_hdata));
     pointer1 = (void *)API_STR2PTR(ZSTR_VAL(z_pointer1));
     pointer2 = (void *)API_STR2PTR(ZSTR_VAL(z_pointer2));
-    name = (void *)API_STR2PTR(ZSTR_VAL(z_name));
+    name = ZSTR_VAL(z_name);
     case_sensitive = (int)z_case_sensitive;
 
     result = weechat_hdata_compare (hdata, pointer1, pointer2, name,