Re: [SMARTY-DEV] Re: [SMARTY]Re:[SMARTY-DEV]$smarty.session.object doesn't work in 2.5.0

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:03:23PM +0200, Wom.bat wrote: > > The value is not referenced if: > > > > 1) the value being assigned is an array > > 2) the value being assigned is an object > > > > Otherwise you are correct, only a reference counter is incremented. > > No Monte, sorry, but you are wrong. Please read > http://www.zend.com/zend/art/ref-count.php again, there > you'll find this at > multiple points in the document, for exampe at "Reference Counting in PHP4": > "Reference counting is used for all the PHP 4 basic data types: such as > integers, booleans, strings, arrays, objects and resources" > Below that statement, you'll find more proof on that. reference-counting is used internally by php for garbage-collection, AFAIK, but not visible to the application-programmer. but any assignment implies a copy of the data. try sth. like this: 1: $a = array('a'); 2: $b = $a; 3: $a[] = 'b'; if a reference was assigned in line 2, then $b would be "array('a', 'b')" since it references the same entity as $a. but since a copy is done in line 2, $a is changed in line 3, but $b is not. greetings messju > Regards, > David