Re: Re: fyi: mdb2 and mdb2_schema releases soon

On 4/28/05, Lukas Smith <lsmith@php.net> wrote: > Justin Patrin wrote: > s. MDB2 is increadibly extensible. You can define custom classes for > >>alot of things. You can dynamically extend MDB2 using modules that can > >>be transparently accessed with __call(). > > > > > > /me cringes. So you're using overloading in MDB2? Is this on by > > default? Are you handling the reference problems somehow? > > This is for PHP5 only really. I just defined a __call() method to access > modules, thats all. > Ok. I asked because of you call overload() on a PHP4 class you can use __call() and such but then you lose the ability to pass params by ref to member functions unless you use call-time-pass-by-ref which is deprecated. Plus it (used to) crash a lot. I'm sure you've seen the DB_DO issues on the list pertaining to overloading... -- Justin Patrin