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

You're right, I was looking at a part of the append() code which does a foreach() loop on the assigned value when merging. Is it Monday again? Monte On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 15:44, Wom.bat wrote: > > ugh :-) > > > > IIRC,We're talking about assigning variables in Smarty via the assign() > > class method call. If you look at the assign() method, you will see that > > arrays are broke apart with a foreach() loop, thus forcing a copy, not a > > reference. > > > > So, examples of Smarty & PHP (4.x): > > > > $bar = 'blah'; > > $foo = $bar; <-- REFERENCE > > $smarty->assign('foo', $bar); <-- REFERENCE > > > > $bar = array('blah','blah2'); > > $foo = $bar; <-- REFERENCE > > $smarty->assign('foo', $bar); <-- COPY > > nope, the second one is a reference, too > it gets a copy if you do > $smarty->assign(array('foo' => $foo, 'bar' => $bar)); > because only THEN a foreach is executed > > look carefully at method assign() again: > If you assign an ARRAY to smarty, it is a reference > If you assign variables VIA AN ARRAY (like in my example above), they get > copied > > Best regards, I hope you're not angry with me or something :) > David > > > > > Monte > > > > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 15:03, 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. > > > > > > Regards, > > > David > > -- > > Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> > > > > > > -- > > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net>