I've run into this already a year ago and now again: The call_user_method() function does not correctly change the properties of the object it's called upon - OR (what I assume) it copies the called object. Just try the code below - the counter remains on 4, not 6 as supposed. 

(I also tried to pass the obj. by reference: call_user_method ("increase", &$t); - it didn't help)


class test 
{ 
var $a=0; 

function increase() 
{ 
$this->a++; 
echo "a is now: ".$this->a."\n
"; 
} 

} 


$t = new test(); 

echo "Direct calls:\n
"; 
$t->increase(); 
$t->increase(); 
$t->increase(); 

echo "
\n\nIndirect calls:\n
"; 

call_user_method ("increase", $t); 
call_user_method ("increase", $t); 
call_user_method ("increase", $t);