Hello, I am developing a PHP extension. I can't reproduce the behavior of references of Zend/PHP.
Here is some Code illustrating Zend's behavior: <?php class Foo { public $baz = array(1);} $foo = new Foo(); $ref = &$foo->baz; $foo->baz = [123];//set array has reference var_dump($foo); Output ------------------------ object(Foo)#1 (1) { ["baz"]=> &array(1) { [0]=> int(123) } } -------------------------------- Note the symbol ( &) output from the var_dump(); Now I add unset($ref) in my code <?php class Foo { public $baz = array(1);} $foo = new Foo(); $ref = &$foo->baz; //unset($ref);// kill reference $foo->baz = [123];// set array has reference unset($ref) ;// kill reference var_dump($foo); ------------------------ object(Foo)#1 (1) { ["baz"]=> array(1) { [0]=> int(123) } } -------------------------------- Note that the symbol (&) has disappeared from the output of var_dump(); I would like to reproduce this behavior but I don't know which method of zend_object_handlers allows to remove( Z_UNREF) the reference. Thank you for your help