From: nicolas dot bui at gmail dot com Operating system: Windows XP SP22 PHP version: 4.4.0 PHP Bug Type: Class/Object related Bug description: return by reference using "new MyObject()"
Description: ------------ Since recent version of PHP 4.3.x (event 4.4), I receive this warning : "Only variable references should be returned by reference". I get this when my function/method return reference of a object create directly by something like "return new MyObject()"; Reproduce code: --------------- class MyObject { } class MyFactory { function & create() { return new MyObject(); } } Expected result: ---------------- simple i would like to avoid tons of warning messages. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=34405&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34405&r=mysqlcfg