Re: call time pass by reference

[Ben Sth. <ben...@or...>]

>> just wondering wether this is a serious warning/error or not worth
>> mentioning:
>> 
>> Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed
>> by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the
> declaration
>> of method_exists(). If you would like to enable call-time
> pass-by-reference,
>> you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file.
>> However, future versions may not support this any longer. in
>> xxx/xpath/xpath.class.php on line 3156
>> 
>> I get this error when including the xpath class. I once read about
>> performance reasons why to use this pass-by-reference thing. but in fact I
>> do not know a lot about it...
> 
> I personally never really got a good handle on this issue, but I don't think
> it is serious.  I think there was a change in philosophy at php.net and they
> planned to remove call-time-pass-by-reference, but then brought it back in
> again in later versions.
> 
> What version of PHP are you using, and what version of Php.XPath are you
> using?  I'm using 4.1.1 (Win32) and have allow_call_time_pass_reference set
> to on.  And my production server is 4.2.3 (Linux) and also has
> allow_call_time_pass_reference set to on.
> 
> Hope this is of some help, and if were lucky someone else on the list will
> clarify for the both of us... :o)
> 
> Nigel
>
already more I needed to know ;-)
we use phpxpath 3.3, php4.1.2 on linux.
call-time-pass-by-reference is on via htaccess since this morning, and
everything works very ok...

thanks
ben