Req #63418 [NEW]: intval/strval pass-by-reference

From: ilyane at list dot ru Operating system: Any PHP version: Irrelevant Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:intval/strval pass-by-reference Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.intval --- Why not to add pass-by-reference option? That would be such a beautiful thing: intval(&$var); strval(&$var); and so on... Test script: --------------- $var = "123"; intval(&$var); var_dump($var); //int(123) Expected result: ---------------- int(123) -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63418&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63418&r=mysqlcfg