Bas Jobsen wrote:

>> What does the "&" (ampersand) before the variable name mean ?
> 
> a pointer to the address (mem) of the variable

PHP doesn't have pointers and memory can't be directly accessed this way 
like you can in C, or C++ or whatever. The ampersand is for passing values 
via reference rather than value. PHP has no notion of pointers.

J

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