#12350 [Com]: Referencing multiple arrays in classes from inside methods doesn't work

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 ID:               12350
 Comment by:       sex-latin449 at hotmail dot com
 Reported By:      m dot stenzel at dragondezign dot de
 Status:           Bogus
 Bug Type:         Class/Object related
 Operating System: W2K
 PHP Version:      4.0.6
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Previous Comments:
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[2001-07-25 05:29:38] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

use $this->firstarray, not $this->$firstarray

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[2001-07-24 16:13:07] m dot stenzel at dragondezign dot de

Configuration: IIS 4 dll with Win32 binaries

Okay I'm new to the game so forgive me a small mistake but I have
tested and reproduced this weird behavior for more than 6 hours.

A class wrapping multiple array variables doesn't allow to access both
arrays as individual references from inside a function.

The following code does not what I expected from the language:

class test {
  VAR $firstarray;  // defining one array
  VAR $secondarray; // defining another array
        
  function testit () {
    $i = 0;
    while ($i < 14) {
      $this->$firstarray[$i] = uniqid ("test", false);
          $this->$secondarray[$i] = uniqid ("different", false);
      echo "Set array #1, item $i to ".$this->$firstarray[$i]." and
array #2 to ".$this->$secondarray[$i]."\n";
          $i++;
        }
  }

  function doitlocal () {
    $i = 0;
    while ($i < 14) {
      $firstarray[$i] = uniqid ("test", false);
          $secondarray[$i] = uniqid ("different", false);
      echo "Set array #1, item $i to ".$firstarray[$i]." and array #2
to ".$secondarray[$i]."\n";
          $i++;
        }
  }
  
}

  $temp = new test;
  $temp->testit();
  echo "The (wrong) result shows that both arrays contain the same
data.\n\n";
  echo "Now lets do it local:\n";
  $temp->doitlocal();
  echo "With local variables everything works as expected.";

I expected the same result from both the testit() and doitlocal()
methods and that would be creating two distinctive arrays and accessing
them later in the script just with different values. This seems not to
be possible if the array is capsulated in the class.

I think i read the manual thorougly and haven't found a hint about this
behavior :(


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