note 38862 deleted from language.oop by aidan

Note Submitter: tiefenbrunner@obdev.at ---- One main difficulty with objects in PHP4 is that objects are likely to be copied whenever assigned to a variable or passed to/from a function, which is usually not what you want. Things will change in PHP5, but until PHP5 is widely used by most providers, we have to deal with PHP4's way of handling objects. The combination of objects with references can solve this problem, but using references can be quite tricky. I played around with objects and references in PHP4 for quite a while and the result is the little guide you can find here: http://www.obdev.at/developers/articles/00002.html By reading it and sticking to the rules listed in it you should be able to use objects in PHP4 while eagerly waiting for PHP5...;-)