"Jome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Robert Dyke wrote:
> > Hi ... PHP newbie here.
> >
> > I'm migrating from ASP/vbScript.
> >
> > I'd like to set up a subroutine that will change several variables at
> > once.
> >
> > In VB, I can say:
> >
> > Private Sub Change_Variables ($variable1, $variable2)
> >     $variable1 = "Something different from it's original value"
> >     $variable2 = "I'm changed also!!"
> > End Sub
> >
> > // in my code I can call it like this:
> > $My_variable1 = "This is the original value of variable1"
> > $My_variable2 = "This is the original value of variable2"
> >
> > Call Change_Variables ($My_variable1, $My_variable2)
> >
> > // after calling this subroutine the variables are changed:
> >
> > print $My_variable1  // yeilds: "Something different from it's
> > original value"
> > print $My_variable2  // yields: "I'm changed also!!"
> >
> > I try to convert this to PHP, and I'm getting stuck.  I'm sure
> > there's a kind of function that can do this.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> VB defaults to pass by reference while PHP defaults to pass by
> value.
>
> Read more at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.pass.php
>
>   Jome

THANKS!!  I inserted the ampersands and it works beautifully ...





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