[PHP-NOTES] note 130387 added to class.weakmap

[email protected] ("[email protected]") Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:11:05 +0000 (UTC)
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WeakMap and SplObjectStorage have different behavior when iterating in a foreach loop. While the key in SplObjectStorage is the numeric index of the inner array, in the WeakMap the key is the object reference:

<?php
class A {}
	
$a = new A;

$objectStorage = new SplObjectStorage ();
$weakMap = new WeakMap();

$objectStorage [$a] = 1;
$weakMap[$a] = 1;

foreach($objectStorage as $key => $value) {
	var_dump($key); // prints: int(0)
}

foreach($weakMap as $key => $value) {
	var_dump($key); // prints: object(A)#1 (0) {}
}
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