Can I delete the & symbol

[ballhogjoni]

I am running php 5.3.2 on my local dev and on the server I am running  php 5.2.5. In my log files I keep getting deprecated messages like:

PHP Deprecated:  Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /Users/xxx/dev/git/xxx/cake/dispatcher.php on line 677

 

Can I just delete & to get rid of this message or will that hose the script locally and on the server? I believe that php 5+ passes all objects as reference.

 

Thanks

[BlueSkyIS]

lacking any other answers, my educated guess is that you can just remove the ampersand.

[Adam]

Prior to PHP5, passing by reference meant the referenced variable would contain the actual object. Now however only a reference kind of ID to the object is stored within the variable. Returning that by reference would mean a reference to a reference, which basically dereferences to the same thing (..and is why PHP has made it deprecated). So yes, you can remove the ampersands without any worry.

[ballhogjoni]

Prior to PHP5, passing by reference meant the referenced variable would contain the actual object. Now however only a reference kind of ID to the object is stored within the variable. Returning that by reference would mean a reference to a reference, which basically dereferences to the same thing (..and is why PHP has made it deprecated). So yes, you can remove the ampersands without any worry.

 

Thanks, thats what I thougt, this solves it!