function with passing reference

[dreerr]

Dear Community,

Trying to do add some field values programmatically, it works fine like this:

// field 'author' does not exist in template
$page->author="{$page->author_first} {$page->author_last}";
echo $page->author;
// prints "John Doe"

due to my structure it would be nice to have this within a function with passing by reference, sadly it does not work like this:

function renderAuthorInfo(&$page)
{
	$page->author="{$page->author_first} {$page->author_last}";
}

renderAuthorInfo($page);
echo $page->author;
// Not working

What am I missing here? Or is it just not possible to do it like this with PHP objects?

The code is only an example, I'm not actually trying to put first and last name together, but something more complex.

[Soma]

...nothing, this works ok. Don't know why it shouldn't.

[teppo]

Did couple of quick tests and there's no problem with this (just like @Soma pointed out above.) Sounds like it's something about your "more complex" thing that's broken.

[nik]

..and there's no need to pass an object explicitly by reference in the first place. Just pass by value and it works as expected (for that part, that is).

See PHP: Objects and references for more information. And in case it was for performance benefits, read "Do not use PHP references" as well.

[dreerr]

Thanks guys, bit to tired today, maybe forgot to save the file    working fine here!