title: What is =& in PHP?
body: <p>Look at this example.  There is a line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  $client =&amp; new xmlrpc_client('/xml-rpc', 'api.quicktate.com', 80);
    $client-&gt;return_type = 'xmlrpcvals';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is the <code>=&amp;</code> and what does the <code>-&gt;</code> in <code>$client-&gt;return_type</code> mean?</p>