Deprecated: Assigning the return value

Hi every Moderators

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in …\wp-content\plugins\bp-moderation\classes\bpModeration.php on line 117

Is there any one who can point a direction to exhange this method before the fallback removes. Seems like a PHP4 fallback, and we don need that.

Here is the code


/**
* why $_istance is an array? Zend 1 engine (php4) can't store a reference in
* a static var, but can store it as a value of a static array
*/
function &get_istance($cname = false)
{
static $_instance = null;

if (null === $_instance && $cname) {

bpModLoader::load_class($cname);
$ref = & new $cname;

$_instance = array(&$ref);
}

return $_instance[0];
}

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