what does & mean

[Rahde]

I've seen someone declaring a class like $myclass = &new classname

what does it mean?

[ahundiak]

$object =& new className();

Creates a new object of type class name. The & is used to store a reference (think pointer) to the object instead of a copy of the object.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.php

[dalecosp]

there ya go...sorry!