RE: [PEAR-DEV] DB patch: Only variables or references can be returned by reference

> From: Tomas V.V.Cox [mailto:cox@idecnet.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:04 PM > To: Analysis & Solutions > > When get some time, I'm going to fully test DB under PHP5. That's a > main objective for the next DB release. I'll count with your patches. > > On Thursday, August 28, 2003 8:46, Analysis & Solutions wrote: > > > Greetings: > > > Problems arise when running DB under PHP 5*. Several files have > > methods that return by reference, but the returns in those methods don't > > return to variables. When this happens, errors, such as the following, > > happen: > > > Fatal error: Only variables or references can be returned by > reference > > in c:\progra~1\pear\pear\DB\common.php on line 766 > > > I have made a patch to address this issue: > > > > http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/pear/DB.references.diff > > > Where returned items are not already variables, I assigned the items to > > variables, then returned the variable. I fixed those issues in MDB and now MDB seems to be working with php5 .. atleast the CLI (since I cant get apache working with php5). Regards, Lukas