Re: [studs-user] PHP Reference Variables and Functions Results by reference

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...>:

> Dan,
>
> 1) With php-4.4 I'm finding that ``$bar =& foo()'' is returning the 
> "Only variables may be assigned by reference" exception when foo() is 
> return by reference; i.e. ``function &foo()''.  2) I also find that 
> within the function declared as return by reference that you cannot 
> return the results of any function, you must first set a variable 
> reference and then return the variable.
>
> As you can imagine this causes issues for studs as it is written.  
> I'm beginning to think I need to give up on PHP and look at Ruby on 
> Rails or Python.  I'm pushing forward with trying to get the basic 
> example up but this isn't looking very promising.
>
> For 1) I have begun using $bar =& ref(foo());
> For 2) I use $return =& baz(); return $return;
>

Hooray!!  Persistence toward this line of revision has brought the 
basic example to view.  One issue on the page is the "This page has 
been viewed X times"; the numeric value replacing X isn't displaying.  
I'm preparing a patch of the changes thus far.  There are many more 
changes that will be needed.

Earnie

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