Remember from the php manual: References in php are not like C pointers.
(they are symbol table aliases)
On 05/28/2007 12:20 AM, Michael B Allen wrote:
<snip>
> for ($i = 0; $i < 3; $i++) {
> $arr = array("a$i");
> $top[] = &$arr;
> $arr["key$i"] = "val$i";
> }
</snip>
So what that is saying is that $arr and $top[n] are both pointing to the
same symbol table (or zval), so each iteration of your loop, you never
/create/ a new zval, in the first line, you (re)assign new data in the
zval which $arr points to. The second line keep pushing another
reference to the same zval.
I usually do all my work to $arr first and then push a *copy* onto top,
however, in order to get the effect of what you wanted "I want to be
able to update elements in $arr after it has been added to $top", you
could do something like assign the value into $top first, and then grab
a reference to that value.
<?php
$top = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < 3; $i++) {
$top[$i] = array("a$i");
$arr = &$top[$i];
$arr["key$i"] = "val$i";
}
print_r($top);
Hope that helps.
flav
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