Deprecated function: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of a(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file indrupal_load() (line 1112 of D:phpStudyWWWdrupal7includesootstrap.inc).
function a($abc){ print $abc + 1; } function b(){ $abc = '123'; a(&$abc); }