Re: Object Equality

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:21, LingWitt@insightbb.com wrote: > (Note: this email seems to relate to this list in my opinion, but I > have been chewed out before when posting such emails) > > I am using PHP 4.3.2, and it seems that testing objects for equality > (with == or ===) causes an internal bug when the objects have recursive > instance variables. That is, if the objects being tested have a > variable that is a reference to an object that has a variable that is a > reference to the first object, then the PHP processor dies. What can be > done about this? If this needs to be sent to another mailing list, > please let me know. Dirty hack -- create a unique ID instance variable for objects via their constructor. Implement equality check with: if( $obj1->uid == $obj2->uid ) { // Same object, yaaaaaaaaaaay! } Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'