Re: PHP Object-Caching and Reference Counting

On 21 jan 2007 Lars Schultz wrote: > >Perhaps you could use your own reference counting? > >Keep your "real" objects in private array and instead of returning them > > return a simple object which would forward all methods and properties by > > __get/__set/__call. The constructor would increase your internal refcount > > by one, destructor would decrease it. > > I use those objects quite often as they are used to access the database > to manipulate or search for related data. It wouldn't perform well and > is actually not at all practicable because there are so many classes for > which I'd would have to copy the interface. I don't see any place where you'd have to change the interface - except for the class which contains that private array; you can use the name of your current class (MyObject)as the name of this new "forwarding" class and make a new name for the class which would be a copy of your current class (eg. MyObject_private). Therefore in all function definitions required class specification doesn't need to change. Well, perhaps you would have to change some "factory" class if you use one, but that should be a one place - if you kept your code clean. I think this solution is better, as you don't have to rely on internal refcounts, which can be implemented in another way (or dropped altogether) in future releases. -- Paweł Stradomski