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

Yes yes I know how PHP handles references. I misled myself with how Smarty assigns variables which was later corrected, read the whole thread first. It's nice to see a post from you though ;-) Monte On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 07:36, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Monte Ohrt 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. > > Umm, how are they _broken_ exactly? Foreach will happily operate on > whatever you pass it. The only time the value will be copy-separated is > if you write to it. > > > $bar = 'blah'; > > $foo = $bar; <-- REFERENCE > > $smarty->assign('foo', $bar); <-- REFERENCE > > > > $bar = array('blah','blah2'); > > $foo = $bar; <-- REFERENCE > > $smarty->assign('foo', $bar); <-- COPY > > No, these are exactly the same. Part of the confusion comes with the > terminology. A "reference" is a value (zval internally) with is_ref > field set to 1. This means that all the variables that have this value > will change all together if the value is changed. If is_ref is 1, but > refcount > 1 (meaning, more than one variable uses this value), then it > is not a reference. > > -Andrei > http://www.gravitonic.com/ > > The 3 great virtues of a programmer: > Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. > --Larry Wall -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net>