Posted by Alex Gemmell on 09/05/05 13:24

Hi sports fans!

I have a quick "references" related question.

Ok, I'm passing a Page object by reference to another object:

myClass->myFunction($objPage);

What I want to do is store that Page object as part of the myClass
object (see definition code below).

My question is this: When assigning the Page object to be a variable of
the myClass object do I store a reference to it or a copy of the reference?

class myClass()
{
var $objPage;

function myFunction(&$objPage) {
// this way (a reference to the reference?):
$this->objPage =& $objPage;

// or this way (a copy of the reference?):
$this->objPage = $objPage;

// code, code, code...
}
}

Is there much difference? Does it really matter? I'm unsure if this is
efficient or not.

Can someone please shed some light on this.

Thanks!

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