From: martin dot koranda at gmail dot com Operating system: linux PHP version: 5.2.5 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: key in an array cannot be a reference in foreach loop
Description: ------------ in foreach loop, if i try to use keys as a reference, i'll get "Fatal error: Key element cannot be a reference". my question is why not? can Zend developers add the possibility of key element reference in the sixth PHP version?? Reproduce code: --------------- foreach($arr as &$key => $val) { ... } Expected result: ---------------- change keys inside the foreach loop Actual result: -------------- Fatal error: Key element cannot be a reference -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=44180&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44180&r=mysqlcfg