Posted by Ivan Marsh on 02/27/07 18:51

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:57:27 -0800, Mitesh wrote:

>
> Ivan Marsh wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:10:28 -0800, Mitesh wrote:
>>
>> > What I have discovered is re-using the $req variable is fine. While re-
>> > using the $res produces undefined result (sometimes the second query
>> > works fine and sometimes it doesn't. When I use different variables like
>> > $res1 and $res2 the mysql queries always succeed. Is the initial
>> > approach of re-using variable wrong if variables contain a
>> > resource(reference type)?
>> >
>> > In other words since PHP uses garbage collection re-using the same
>> > variable can cause problems. Is this true?
>>
>> Google: mysql free result
>
> Thanx, but that doesn't address my question. I may have another type
> of resource other than mysql result. So, should I be concerned about
> re-using reference variables in PHP bound to some resource?

I haven't had any trouble with it... but then I tend to destroy/create
anything I'm going to re-use.

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