Re: Memory/Object question

In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011091055280.1098-100000@one.ctelcom.net>, bughuntr@one.ctelcom.net (Bug Hunter) wrote: > I'm working on a program that will be running for a while (days) (using > php in a cgi mode). > > If I have an object in an array and do the following: > > obj2 = new obj; > > obj["1"] = obj2; > > If obj["1"] already existed, what happens to it? does it lay around > consuming memory, or is it destroyed? In PHP 3, it laid around. In PHP 4, it should get destroyed, almost-for-sure. > Or does the data in the object get copied? If not, can I make the data > get copied so I don't eat up memory, without doing a variable at a time? You may be able to dink around with & and get less copy-construction going on in some places, but I doubt that you can do it in this particular example. How sure are you that you need your script to run for days? Could it be turned into a cron job that ran every few minutes instead? -- Richard Lynch | If this was worth $$$ to you, buy a CD US Customer Support Director | from one of the artists listed here: Zend Technologies USA | http://www.L-I-E.com/artists.htm http://www.zend.com | (this has nothing to do with Zend, duh!)