Re: Pre-Destructor magic function?

On Fri, August 10, 2007 6:01 pm, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: I'm not a PHP OOP expert, so this could be 100% wrong, but... > $obj = new A(); in a loop the object's never released from memory > because of the internal references it holds. __destruct is not called > until the end of script execution etc. Now normally in a web request If __destruct isn't being called until the end of the script, then PHP thinks you still have some way of accessing that object, and it can't free it. > situation this isn't a big deal. However I'm using it in a batch and > loop over 22 000 records. Since re-assigning the single object I use > isn't freeing any memory it consumes quite a bit. Perhaps set some things to NULL or unset them explicitly to convince PHP that you are done with them. > I have gotten around > it by creating a special function in the object to manually release > the > recursive references. Well, there you go. Release the references so PHP knows you are done with them. > However it would be nice if there were some sort > of 'magic' function that could be called on an object so that it knows > it is being deleted, sort of like a __preDestruct or something like > that... Is that a bad idea? Or I guess better able to handle recursive > references in objects would be the other way to solve it I guess. __destruct is called right before PHP destroys the object. There really isn't any event of any significance for a __perDesctruct... Either you're done with it, or you're not... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?