I know that it’s creating a reference in other cases. But what happens here?
$crawler = &new MyCrawler();
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It creates an instance of MyCrawler and passes the reference for that instance into $crawler. In PHP5 this is assumed so the use of the
&is deprecated.See Object References (the Ampersand).