#44467 [NEW]: wrong oop example in provided manual of php installer package

From: krille at thomaskrille dot de Operating system: windows XP PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: wrong oop example in provided manual of php installer package Description: ------------ in the provided (.chm) manual of the php installer package the following example is given in Lang.Ref.->Classes and ...(PHP5)->The Basics: <?php $assigned = $instance; $reference =& $instance; $instance->var = '$assigned will have this value'; $instance = null; // $instance and $reference become null var_dump($instance); var_dump($reference); var_dump($assigned); ?> The above example will output: NULL NULL object(SimpleClass)#1 (1) { ["var"]=> string(30) "$assigned will have this value" } this example describes the php4 behavior, not the php5 one. i haven't checked if this mistake is also exsists in other provided manuals. manual version: "Sun Nov 11 00:33:08 2007" Reproduce code: --------------- n/a Expected result: ---------------- n/a Actual result: -------------- n/a -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=44467&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44467&r=mysqlcfg