#44175 [Opn->Bgs]: unable to unset reference

ID: 44175 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: absynthe dot is at free dot fr -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: linux PHP Version: 5.2.5 New Comment: Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Due to the volume of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not a bug. The support channels will be able to provide an explanation for you. Thank you for your interest in PHP. . Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-19 18:12:52] absynthe dot is at free dot fr Description: ------------ Hello, First of all I would like to know if one day we will be able to unset $this into a class in order to destroy the object. It could really be useful to prevent big memory usage. As it can't be done I tried to unset an object by unsetting a reference of this object but it has no effect on the object but only on the reference. Should unset destroy the reference itself and the object ??? if you don't think so can you think of something different to destroy both of them like I don't know, destroy($obejctsreference) Regards. Reproduce code: --------------- <? $x = new stdClass(); $x->a = 'ayayaye'; $b[0] =& $x; unset($b[0]); var_dump($x); ?> Expected result: ---------------- NULL Actual result: -------------- object(stdClass)#1 (1) { ["a"]=> string(7) "ayayaye" } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=44175&edit=1