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Posted by Phil Latio on 03/07/07 02:31
"Hendri Kurniawan" <ask-me@email.com> wrote in message
news:12us5qd6doi2n80@corp.supernews.com...
> Ivαn Sαnchez Ortega wrote:
>> Phil Latio wrote:
>>> Secondly, I've been reading a tutorial and noticed the use of an "&" in
>>> front of the word "new" when instantiating a new object. See example
>>> below, I just wondered what is it's significance? The code was purely a
>>> snippet. $textField1 = &new inputTextObject("blah", "blah", "blah");
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>> The ampersand sign ("&") is the reference operator; it has no use at all
>> when creating new instances.
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> No use when creating new instance under PHP5,
> Under PHP4 it makes quite a difference.
That explains it. I think the tutorial was originally written for PHP4 or at
least the author wanted compatibility with PHP4.
Cheers
Phil
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