Re: Dereferencing an array.

it's only marginally faster, but it does look a bit cleaner, and is a bit more memory efficient: $records[] = unserialize(serialize($boundParams)); -- The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.  ~Seymour Cray On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Richard Quadling <rquadling@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > Based upon ... > > <?php > $name = Null; > $age = Null; > $boundParams = array('name' => &$name, 'age' => &$age); > $records = array(); > > $name = 'Richard'; > $age  = 43; > $records[] = $boundParams; > > $name = 'Sally'; > $age  = 37; > $records[] = $boundParams; > > print_r($records); > ?> > > outputs Sally twice. > > Whilst that is the correct output based upon the code, it is undesired. > > I want the boundParams to have the references (the actual data from my > mysqli_stmt::fetch() with bound results), but I want to be able to > copy the values and not maintain the references. > > > The best I've come up with is ... > > <?php > $name = Null; > $age = Null; > $boundParams = array('name' => &$name, 'age' => &$age); > $records = array(); > > > $columns = array_keys($boundParams); > > $name = 'Richard'; > $age  = 43; > //$records[] = $boundParams; > $records[] = array_combine($columns, > array_map(function($m_Value){return $m_Value;}, $boundParams)); > > $name = 'Sally'; > $age  = 37; > //$records[] = $boundParams; > $records[] = array_combine($columns, > array_map(function($m_Value){return $m_Value;}, $boundParams)); > > print_r($records); > ?> > > Is there a more efficient way? > -- > Richard Quadling > Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc > @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >