Posted by "Mark Steudel" on 12/11/05 19:30

What did you do to fix it?

-----Original Message-----
From: Eternity Records Webmaster [mailto:webmaster@eternityrecords.org]
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 7:10 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP] broken code....

Got it fixed now... tnx...



-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Blay [mailto:benblay@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:46 AM
To: Mark Steudel
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] broken code....


I believe the difference between using =& and = is that the former passes
the value by reference, though I've never been clear about the benefits of
using one over the other when it comes to PEAR:DB (the PEAR:DB documentation
uses =& extensively, so presumably it is the better method).

Ben



On 12/8/05, Mark Steudel <mark@netriver.net> wrote:
> Good catch:
>
> So I normally do
>
> $results =& $db->query ( "SELECT * FROM table" );
>
> What is the difference between using the & and not using the &.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Blay [mailto:benblay@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:27 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] broken code....
>
> > $results->query('select * from eternityrecords.journal');
>
> Should this not be:
> $results = $db->query('select * from eternityrecords.journal');
>
> See:
> http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.database.db.db-result.fetchinto.
> php
>
> Ben
>
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