PHP's assignment by reference is not working as expected

Question

Why the following

class AClass
{
    public function __construct ()
    {
        $this->prop = \"Hello\";
    }
    public function &get ()
    {
                


        

Answer 1

what you want can be acheived by this-

 prop = "Hello";
    }
    public function &get ()
    {
        return $this->prop;
    }
    protected $prop;
}

function func (&$ref)
{
   $ref= $ref->get();

}

$value = new AClass();
func($value);
print_r( $value );
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