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Passing values by Reference

Hi All,

Is it possible to pass values by Reference in Phalcon? This simple code does not work :

$x = 10;
echo $x;
&$x = 11;
echo $x; // should be 11 but does not work in phalcon
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of course it works, phalcon is just the framework, but other than that you're using plain php. And the way you wrote it will return an error

function indexAction()
{
  $x = 10;
  echo $x; // 10

  $this->passByReference($x);
  echo $x; // 11 
}

public function passByReference(&$x) {
  $x = 11;
}