In PHP 4 object variables were simple. Assigning one object to another worked exactly as you'd expect.
$object1->title = "Title One"; $object2 = $object1; $object2->title = "Title Two"; print $object1->title; // returns "Title One"
You could make a copy of the original, and modify your copy with full assurance that your original would remain untouched.
That changed in PHP 5. Now when you assign an object to a new variable.
