Posted by seaside on 12/20/06 01:42

Andy Hassall schrieb:

> On 19 Dec 2006 14:27:26 -0800, "johnny" <rampeters@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I have the following PHP code. I am using PHP 5.1.6.
> >
> >$req =& new HTTP_Request($this->accessUrl);
> >
> >I am getting the following errors:
> >Strict Standards: Assigning the return value of new by reference is
> >deprecated in c:\mysite\lib\simpleTest.php on line 80
>
> Objects are always passed by reference in PHP 5 hence the warning of
> deprecation of the effective double-reference.
>
> Obviously if you have to support PHP 4 then you must keep the & - in which
> case you need to disable E_STRICT from error_reporting.

Just for the sake of clearness: Any assignment of an object to a
variable creates a copy of the object? A shallow object, I suppose?

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