Re: Class Auto-Assigning to Variable

On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 13:11 -0600, Brian Smither wrote: > Second go around: > > I have a situation where, for some unknown reason, where each class that finishes its > __contruct{} function, that class gets automatically assigned to a variable - other than the > variable I specify. > > Conceptually (a little bit better on the conceptualizing): > > class Hello { > private $_world = 'World'; > function __construct(){} > } > > $clsHello = new Hello(); > > echo 'The variable $hello is '.gettype($hello)."\n".print_r($hello,true); > > Output: > The variable $hello is object > Hello Object > ( > [_world:Hello:private] => World > ) > > There is no statement in my application that assigns an instance of the class to another > variable, the name being a lowercase variant of the class name. > > Would there be a PHP function that would do this as a side-effect? > > I am more interested in learning what is happening as opposed to rolling back to a previous > version. (A backup copy functions fine. A file compare does not reveal any likely suspects.) > > PHP5.4.17-NTS-VC9 (Windows XP-SP3) > > > > I cannot replicate this. That code you supplied correctly gives a notice warning about an undefined variable '$hello'. Are you sure that that simple code excerpt is giving you the problem you describe and there's not more to the whole thing, more code, etc? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk