Reference to THIS from inside constructor

[Tamagafk]

Hi there,
I heard storing reference to THIS from inside object's constructor can
cause problems:

$myObjects = array();
class MyClass{
function MyClass(){
global $myObjects;
$myObjects[] = $this;
}
}

Do you know anything about that? It looks like when constructor
finishes all such references lead to COPY of the object.

[Tom]

Re: Reference to THIS from inside constructor

On Feb 1, 9:55 am, "Tamagafk" <tamag...@gmail .comwrote:

Hi there,
I heard storing reference to THIS from inside object's constructor can
cause problems:
>
$myObjects = array();
class MyClass{
function MyClass(){
global $myObjects;
$myObjects[] = $this;
}
>
}
>
Do you know anything about that? It looks like when constructor
finishes all such references lead to COPY of the object.

If you actually want to reference instead of copy, you need to do:
$myObjects[] = &$this ;

You can also do this outside the constructor when defining your
instance, e.g.:
$myObjects[] = &$ref ;
$ref = new MyClass() ;