RE: [PHP] Do classes/objects need to be destroyed when finished?

Configuration: OS - NT4SP6a HTTP - WebSite Pro 2.4.22 PHP - 4.0.1pl2 I invoke via COM an object built as an ActiveX dll with MS VB. Everything is fine in ASP. The first time I run the script there is no error. Subsequent times I get the following. Warning: Unable to obtain IDispatch interface for CLSID {15DBEE96-4F98-11D4-8993-0000C07514EE}: CoInitialize has not been called. in D:\Web_Sites\Testing_PHP4\HTdocs\test_com.php4 on line 9 Unable to instanciate object Unset did not fix the problem. The only way to run again is to stop and restart the HTTP server. Howard A. Cohodas Design Knowledge Technologies Inc. Phone: (011)(330)492-9900 FAX: (011)(330)492-1100 otfGIF Encoder: http://www.dkt.com/otfGIF -----Original Message----- From: php3@developersdesk.com [mailto:php3@developersdesk.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 3:24 AM To: Michael J. Russell; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Do classes/objects need to be destroyed when finished? Addressed to: "Michael J. Russell" <mrussell@macomb.com> php-general@lists.php.net ** Reply to note from "Michael J. Russell" <mrussell@macomb.com> Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:17:21 -0500 > > ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01BFE5CA.F31A3A00 Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I'm coming from an ASP background to PHP, and one of the things that > was = always drilled into my head was that I had to destroy objects > when = finished using them as IIS couldn't be relied upon to release > the = resources they consume when the script finishes processing. Is > anything = like this necessary when using objects in PHP? > Nope. PHP does a very good job cleaning up after you. Everything goes away when the script ends, and some things may go away even sooner. OTOH, if you use something large, early in your script, and never need it again, you should consider releasing it yourself to save memory. (unset()) The same for SQL result pointers. If you know you won't use it again, and you still have lots of other work to do, you can save memory by releasing them. (mysql_free_result() in MySQL) If you only do one or two queries, use the results, then terminate the script, don't worry, PHP will clean up after you just fine. Rick Widmer Internet Marketing Specialists www.developersdesk.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net