note 41645 deleted from control-structures.foreach by googleguy
| From: | googleguy@php.net | Date: | Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:35:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 41645 deleted from control-structures.foreach by googleguy | ||
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Note Submitter: scott at slerman dot net
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Apparently the behavior of foreach with classes changed in PHP5. Normally, foreach operates on a
copy of the array. If you have something like
<?php
foreach ($array as $value){
$value = "foo";
}
?>
the original array will not be modified. However, testing this code on PHP5RC1
<?php
class foobar {
var $a;
var $b;
function foobar(){
$this->a = "foo";
$this->b = "bar";
}
}
$a = new foobar;
$b = new foobar;
$c = new foobar;
$arr = array('a' => $a, 'b' => $b, 'c' => $c);
foreach ($arr as $e){
$e->a = 'bah';
$e->b = 'blah';
}
var_dump($arr);
?>
resulted in the following output:
array(3) {
["a"]=>
object(foobar)#1 (2) {
["a"]=>
string(3) "bah"
["b"]=>
string(4) "blah"
}
["b"]=>
object(foobar)#2 (2) {
["a"]=>
string(3) "bah"
["b"]=>
string(4) "blah"
}
["c"]=>
object(foobar)#3 (2) {
["a"]=>
string(3) "bah"
["b"]=>
string(4) "blah"
}
}
It would seem that classes are actually passed by reference in foreach, or at least that methods are
called on the original objects.