Re: Re: [PHP] Class instance pointers

On 29 Nov 2011 at 17:01, cimodev <cimodev@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 29.11.2011 16:56, schrieb Tim Streater: >> Is there any benefit to setting a pointer to a class instance to null before >> returning from a function? As in: >> >> function myfunc () >> { >> $p = new myclass (); >> // do stuff >> $p = null; >> } > No! > In this case the GC will do that for you :) Thanks, I expected that to be the case, but it's not been crucial up to now. Rather than having a script that runs for a while and quits, I'm hoping to run a small server written in PHP and wanted to be 100% sure that I didn't need to. -- Cheers -- Tim