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Isn't the use of & deprecated since PHP 5? Why would you want to use it?
Submitted by Mihai Baboi on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 21:56
PermalinkThe use of & isn´t deprecated since PHP 5, it´s simply not necessary in most cases as objects are always passed by reference. In case your variable doesn´t contain an object, the above example is still correct.
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Submitted by Jan on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 18:03
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