ID: 24687 Comment by: jan at horde dot org Reported By: nologic at pchome dot com dot tw Status: Analyzed Bug Type: Zend Engine 2 problem Operating System: windows2000sp4 PHP Version: 5CVS-2003-07-16 (dev) Assigned To: zeev New Comment:
Any idea yet if this will be fixed/addressed or should we start converting scripts to not use referenced return type or build variables that get returned? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-24 03:16:39] mikkel at linet dot dk I have the same problem with PHP5 snap 200307240730, PEAR DB will not work, as many functions has "&" in front of them. So a "return new DB_Result" does not work. Mayby this should only be a "notice" instead of a "fatal" error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-22 11:53:29] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it is quite complicated. You can only return variables by reference, a function's return value is not something we can 'connect' to... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-17 03:35:38] [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do it like this it works: class TextSanitizer { function &htmlSpecialChars($text) { $foo = preg_replace("/&/i", '&', htmlspecialchars($text, ENT_QUOTES)); return $foo; } } So would it really be *that* hard to make it work? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-17 03:23:15] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It never really worked (caused memory corruption). Unlikely to be changed, since it doesn't make sense, but we'll see. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-17 03:11:29] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually this is not a bug, but just another BC break, but a pretty huge one. I think it's too much of a problem not to address it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/24687 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=24687&edit=1