Hello Ron,

that's prefectly correct.

regards
marcus

Sunday, August 8, 2004, 1:14:55 PM, you wrote:

> i think the object will only cease to exist when all references to it are
> gone

> "Curt Zirzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> I'm trying to document how objects are passed to functions in php5,
>> but am running into some troubles.
>>
>> In the code below the object appears to be a reference but when the
>> original object is destoyed it still somehow exists.  Can someone
>> explain how this is? I was going to report a bug on this but using
>> the traditional &$obj usage it works perfectly fine.
>>
>> class Test {
>>   public $object = null;
>>   public $object1 = null;
>>
>>
>>   function SetVarVal($obj) {
>>     $this->object = $obj;
>>   }
>>
>>   function SetVarRef(&$obj) {
>>     $this->object1 = &$obj;
>>   }
>>
>> }
>>
>> $obj1 = new StdClass();
>>
>> $obj2 = new Test();
>> $obj2->SetVarVal($obj1);
>> $obj2->SetVarRef($obj1);
>>
>>
>> $obj1->foo = 'test';       /* show how obj1's is a ref */
>> $obj1 = null;              /* destroy object */
>>
>> var_dump($obj2->object);  /* still has object with ->foo */
>> var_dump($obj2->object1); /* NULL */
>>
>>
>>
>> Curt
>> -- 
>> First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid
> schemes
>> you've been hearing about.  No, sir.  Our model is the trapezoid!




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