RE: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP3] Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP3] OO

There's no way of doing that (it's actually fairly bad OO design anyway, to return references to internals of your object, and have them manipulated in an uncontrolled manner; You can override this by directly accessing the object properties, though). Zeev At 17:53 10/08/99 , Shannon Weyrick wrote:

On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, you wrote: At 15:54 10/08/99 , Samuel Liddicott wrote: You have to know the internals of Zend and PHP to understand that, but I'll give you a sketch. $a = new object;

$b = $a;        // $a and $b now point to the same place in memory, but if

one of them is changed,

                 // they're separated and no longer point to the same

memory, so that changes made to

                 // $a won't be applied to $b and vice versa

Zeev, Thanks for the insight, and I have a question to this statement related above. I was running into a problem where, in a class method, I was creating a new object, and trying to return this newly created object to the caller. The caller was, however, recieving a copy of the object, and changes made to it weren't being made to the correct object. neither of these solutions worked: $newOb = &$this->newObject; return &$newOb; /* still returns a copy of the object? */ or return &$this->newObject; /* returns parse error */ so in this situation, how does one return a pointer to the newly created object containted within a class, rather than a copy of it? if I'm being terribly unclear, I'll try to create a smaller example of what I'm doing in this revlatively large OO code I've been playing with. shannon weyrick (weyrick@roadsend.com), -- PHP 4 Beta

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