Re: Remove vars from memory?

From: Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:31:02 +0000
Subject: Re: Remove vars from memory?
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> yes, you must use unset() to remove a variable, otherwise it will stay > for the duration of the script. Don't worry about memory management if you're going to use PHP. The point of using a high level language like PHP is you can just ignore it. Let's say you decided to: if ($temp) { /* something */ } unset $temp; // save a couple bytes of memory And you decided to reuse $temp a few weeks later: if ($temp) // never will execute because you forgot you unset($temp); { /* something */ } So unless you're dealing with an extreme scenario (i.e. a number of very large mySQL queries), you probably don't need to worry. -Dan

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