note 99549 deleted from language.references.pass by googleguy
| From: | googleguy@php.net | Date: | Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:24:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 99549 deleted from language.references.pass by googleguy | ||
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Note Submitter: northhero at gmail dot com
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Someone mentioned that passing reference doesn't work as expected from within
call_user_func(). For example:
<?php
$string = 'string';
function change(&$str) {
$str = 'str';
}
call_user_func('change', $string);
echo $string;
?>
output:
string //not as expected 'str'
Here we could assume call_user_func as below
<?php
function call_user_funct($func, $param) {
$func($param);
}
?>
As calling $func() inside call_user_funct, here is change(), the variable $param is copied to a
third variable then the temp variable is passed to the $func. So $str only hold the reference of the
temp variable inside change().
Of course , if we pass &$string directly to call_user_func we could always get the result as
expected (str).