On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:58 AM, John Campbell wrote: >> $grantUser object updated with the new levels or not. If I know I am dealing >> with the current user, than I want the admin authority to immediately be >> applied so it will flow to all future function calls: >> $return= Application::setUserRole(&$grantUser, USER_ADMIN); >> Wheras if I am dealing with the previous user, I may very well want to keep >> the original user to see if any changes where made: >> $return = Application::setUserRole($grantUser, USER_ADMIN); > > Objects are always passed by reference. You don't have a choice. > What is the point of this rant? Passing strings / ints by reference > is a pointless feature of php.
Yeah, use the "clone" keyword to clone an object if you don't want changes to it to be propegated to all the other references. http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.cloning.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
