13.4. Compatibility Mode
In an earlier section, one suggested solution was to turn on the compatibility mode. This mode actually changes more behavior than just the pass-by-reference behavior. It also affects other Zend Engine 2 (PHP 5) related changes. Turning on Zend Engine 1 (PHP 4) compatibility mode changes the following:
Passing objects to a function results in a copy of the object (discussed in the previous section).
Casting an object to a Boolean, integer, or double results in 0 if the object has no properties.
Comparing objects results in true when the properties of the two objects have the same content.
13.4.1. Casting Objects
In PHP 4, (int) $object returns 1 if the object has properties or 0 if the object has no properties. This is ...
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