getting a reference to code igniter super object

[eluser]nourdine[/eluser]
[quote author="n0xie" date="1309792898"][quote author="C. Jiménez" date="1309791978"]because when you do &= you are referencing that object.

if you do = you get a copy.
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No no no.

PHP5 assigns by reference by default.

When assigning an already created instance of an object to a new variable, the new variable will access the same instance as the object that was assigned. This behaviour is the same when passing instances to a function. A new instance of an already created object can be made by cloning it.

The reason the examples use =& is because it's backwards compatible with PHP4. In PHP4 assigning an object would clone the object.[/quote]

so am damn right aint i?