references a functions

I trying to code a kind of DB wrapper. So when is dbQuery turn I run into trouble. I read in php manual that refrences are not like C pointers. They just point to the same content. I want to return the result from a mysql_query but if I do something like this:

    function bdConsultar($strCon) {
        $idRes = @mysql_query($strCon);
        return $idRes;
    }

Should be called like this? $myID = &bdConsultar("Select * from users");