PHP 5.0.3 losing $this

PHP 5.0.3 is losing $this. PHP 4.3.10 and 5.0.0 seem to work fine. The bug originally appeared in 5.0.2. I have submitted a bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/31525 I've not had alot of luck with reporting bugs through the bug tracker; For instance see http://bugs.php.net/31508 where the guy claims PHP can't do recursion without crashing ... Ummm? So I thought I'd try to ask here. Unfortunately I've been unable to reproduce the 5.0.3 bug in just a few lines. I do have a script that's in my mind pretty short and the meat of it is only 8 lines long but it includes three classes needed to set up the experiment. More information is available at: http://www.formvista.com/index.html?article_id=4 Direct link to the code: http://www.formvista.com/uploaded_files/php5_drops_object.php.txt Scroll to the bottom. The code has three classes: fv_basecomponent is a child of fv_basewidget is a child of fv_tree. fv_baseComponent overrides a method in fv_basewidget called &getParentControl(). fv_baseComponent::getParentControl() returns a reference to $this. In PHP 5.0.3 the reference returned is not an object and a nasty error is generated. I've tested this using today's snapshot (php5-STABLE-200503051730). It continues to work like a champ in PHP 4.3.10 and every previous version and like I said it used to work in 5.0.0. Any help in tracking this down or devising a workaround would be greatly appreciated. And if anyone has any thoughts on bug http://bugs.php.net/31508 that would be greatly appreciated as well; it's not quite the showstopper than the 5.0.3 bug is, but is causing me serious headaches as well. Thanks -- Yermo ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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