I am upgrading a codebase that makes use of pass by reference Main function
function splitSqlFile(&$ret, $sql)
{
$sql = trim($sql);
$sql_len = strlen($sql);
$char = '';
$string_start = '';
$in_string = false;
for ($i = 0; $i < $sql_len; ++$i) {
$char = $sql[$i];
if ($in_string) {
for (;;) {
$i = strpos($sql, $string_start, $i);
if (!$i) {
$ret[] = $sql;
return true;
}else if ($string_start == '`' || $sql[$i-1] != '\\'){
......
}else {
......
} // end if...elseif...else
} // end for
}
else if ($char == ';') {
$ret[] = substr($sql, 0, $i);
$sql = ltrim(substr($sql, min($i + 1, $sql_len)));
$sql_len = strlen($sql);
if ($sql_len) {
$i = -1;
} else {
// The submited statement(s) end(s) here
return true;
}
}else if (($char == '"') || ($char == '\'') || ($char == '`')) {
$in_string = true;
$string_start = $char;
} // end else if (is start of string)
// for start of a comment (and remove this comment if found)...
else if ($char == '#' || ($char == ' ' && $i > 1 && $sql[$i-2] . $sql[$i-1] == '--')) {
......
if (!$end_of_comment) {
// no eol found after '#', add the parsed part to the returned
// array and exit
$ret[] = trim(substr($sql, 0, $i-1));
return true;
} else {
.....
} // end if...else
} // end else if (is comment)
} // end for
// add any rest to the returned array
if (!empty($sql) && trim($sql) != '') {
$ret[] = $sql;
}
return true;
}
Calling the function
$sqlUtility->splitSqlFile($pieces, $sql_query);
foreach ($pieces as $piece)
{
.......
}
If the above variable splitSqlFile(&$ret, $sql) have the "&" before it, the program does run successfully, but if it is removed, now splitSqlFile($ret, $sql), It will start returning the 'invalid argument supplied for foreach' error.and when I try using the "is_array" function to check if it is an array, the result is always "NULL".