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in RedHat php-4.2.2 i have noticed thisproblem (is it fixed in some newer version of PHP?):

======PHP CODE STARTS=========
<?php

class test {
        var $nr = 0;
        var $sub1 = null;

        function test() {
                $this->sub1 =& new sub(&$this);
                $this->nr++;
        }
}

class sub {
        var $parent = null;

        function sub($pObj) {
                $this->parent = &$pObj;
        }
}


$mytest =& new test();

print_r($mytest);
?>

======PHP CODE ENDS=========

and outout is following:

test Object
(
    [nr] => 1
    [sub1] => sub Object
        (
            [parent] => test Object
                (
                    [nr] => 1
                    [sub1] =>  *RECURSION*
                )

        )

)

but the problem is: the *RECURSION* must allready be in [parent] because the [parent] is a pointer/reference to parent object...

am i right or wrong ?

in more complicated solutions where are more objects that use  references to their parents, print_r()  can not handle the recursion well and results in an infinite loop...