Re: newbie question
| From: | itoctopus | Date: | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:08:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: newbie question | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Means you're passing the variable as reference.
This means that any change in the variable inside your function will affect
the variable outside your function, in other terms:
if you have
function myfunc(&$var){
$var = 5;
}
$a = 6;
myfunc($a);
will result in having $a=5 after the function all.
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"bob pilly" <bobpilly@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> Can anyone tell me what '&' means before a var?
>
> e.g function(&$var)
>
> Thanks for any help in advance
>
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