Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] PHP 4 behaviour change

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 31 Aug 2006, at 13:35, Matthew McNaney wrote:

> I have run across these while testing 1.0 as well. I can't remember
> where it popped up. Besides Pear, I am returning a contruction in just
> one class (Category.php).
>
> Is it isolated to 4.4 or is carried into versions higher?
>

Seems to have been carried forward into PHP 5 too.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.return.php

"Note: If you try to return a reference from a function with the  
syntax: return ($found_var); this will not work as you are attempting  
to return the result of an expression, and not a variable, by  
reference. You can only return variables by reference from a function  
- nothing else. E_NOTICE error is issued since PHP 4.4.0 and PHP  
5.1.0 if the code tries to return a dynamic expression or a result of  
the new operator."


But it's not consistent. See http://gallery.menalto.com/node/33076


Ugh!



> If it could be widespread, we can can fix the calls in 0.10.3.
>
> More thoughts?
>


Yep, it's going to have to be fixed for 0.10.3.



Shaun
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