Arrays : Returning A Reference To An Array Item ??
I am currently storing a set of objects inside an array,
$itemlist = array();
$itemlist[] = new item("myitem");
//...
and I am looking to develop a search function, which returns a
reference to the found item.
function &search_item($itemlist,"myitem") {
//...
}
I am trying to figure out how to obtain a reference to a given item in
an array.
Indeed, foreach() and each() seem to work on copies of the data in the
array.
For example:
$array = array("a","b","c","d");
print_r($array);
foreach($array as $v) $v="xxx";
print_r($array); // $array is unchanged
reset($array) ; while(list(,$v)=each($array)) $v="xxx";
print_r($array); // $array is unchanged, again
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