note 98761 deleted from language.references.arent by danbrown

Note Submitter: davidsoutehr at gmail dot com ---- russrobinson, you are incorrect. Notice that in your code, line 18, you assign directly to the $var reference, which in both PHP and C++ will indeed make $var and $bar point to the same instance of the dog object. However, if you replace line 18 in your example with a reference assignment, eg $var =& new Dog("gypsy"); the example will behave exactly as described in the documentation. southerd@schroedinger:~/Desktop$ cat testRef.php <?php class Dog { var $Name; function Dog($name) { $this->Name = $name; } function GetName() { return ($this->Name); } }; $bar = new Dog("Spot"); function foo(&$var) { $var =& new Dog("Gypsy"); } foo($bar); echo $bar->GetName()."\n"; echo "If that said 'Gypsy', then object references are really pointers\n"; ?> southerd@schroedinger:~/Desktop$ php testRef.php Spot If that said 'Gypsy', then object references are really pointers