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[Daniel Convissor]

Aaron:

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Aaron Fischer wrote:
> I need to copy an array by value, not by reference.  Is there a best  
> way to do this?  Right now I found serialize/unserialize which seems  
> to do the trick.

What ARE you talking about?  Copying by value is the default behavior in 
PHP.


INPUT:
$a1 = array('a', 'b');
$a2 = $a1;
$a1[0] = 'changed';
print_r($a1);
print_r($a2);


OUTPUT:
Array
(
    [0] => changed
    [1] => b
)
Array
(
    [0] => a
    [1] => b
)


--Dan

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