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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 04:25:32 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding a few debug helpers to php4.x
From: adam@bregenzer.net (Adam Bregenzer)

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 20:49, Todd Ruth wrote:
> I work for a company that is using php and would like to
> contribute a few helper functions that we find useful.
> They are most helpful for anyone doing OO work (especially
> if using singletons) who isn't ready to move to php5.
> Two of the three are trivial to incorporate, but
> for the third I'm looking for some advice.  I'm also not
> sure if I should get a cvs account for this stuff or
> if posting it here is sufficient inspiration for some
> good natured soul to get the functions into php. :)
> I'll start with the easy ones:
> 
> ============ ref_id(mixed var) ============
[snip]
> ============ ref_count(mixed var) ============

I agree that these could be quite useful, I just ran into a situation a
few minutes ago where they would have saved me some time.

> ============ (dis)allow_copies(mixed var) ============

What about implementing this directly in php?  You could use
trigger_error in the constructor to stop the script from executing if
the object is instantiated more than once.

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Adam Bregenzer
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