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

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

Quoting Earnie Boyd <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.
>

Patch 1489780.

I had previously submited 1487926 and 1487666; if these have not been 
committed to the source repository then 1489780 diff contains these as 
well.

Earnie Boyd

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