#38294 [Opn->Bgs]: Doc example problem

ID: 38294 Updated by: colder@php.net Reported By: rejek at sdnet dot pl -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Using $instance = null won't affect the object itself. $assigned still holds a reference to the object, as objects are assigned by reference in PHP5. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-08-02 13:10:28] rejek at sdnet dot pl In online doc. at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.basic.php http://pl.php.net/manual/pl/language.oop5.basic.php there is the same problem. MR ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-08-02 12:22:14] rejek at sdnet dot pl Description: ------------ Look at the Ex. 19-4 in polish ver. of documentation avaible to download at http://pl2.php.net/get/php_manual_pl.html.gz/from/pl.php.net/mirror The line "$instance->var = '$assigned will have this value';" should be just after "<?PHP" tag to get the expected result given in the box under ex. code. I don't know how it looks in other language versions. Brgs Mateusz Rejek Reproduce code: --------------- <?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); ?> Expected result: ---------------- NULL NULL object(stdClass)#1 (1) { ["var"]=> string(30) "$assigned will have this value" } Actual result: -------------- NULL NULL NULL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38294&edit=1