Posted by Rasmus Lerdorf on 09/21/05 08:08

Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 00:58, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>
>>And for PHP5 you can just drop all references related to objects and it
>>will do the right thing.
>
>
> Eeeek, that's not entirely true. Sometimes you want a real reference to
> an object even in PHP5 :/

$a = new foo();

Will create a reference to the object.

$b = $a;

Now you have 2 references to the same object.

For any sort of normal use, you never need to explicitly create
references to objects in PHP 5.

-Rasmus

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