Re: [RFC] Class instances counter

On 04/08/2013 09:07 PM, Madara Uchiha wrote:

I'm with Morrison, I see no actual use for this. It's "cool", but what would you use it for? On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com> wrote:

I see little value in having a function that tells me how many objects of any kind I have instantiated. Mostly, I see it as a way to help teach people about assignment of objects works in PHP:

     $a = new MyClass();
     $b = $a;
     var_dump(get_object_count());

And that's about the sum of how useful I think this is. If it were to be able to narrow it to a specific class then it *might* be a little more useful. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

I see some merit in the idea that during development of an application it could be useful to get a profile view of the object store, without affecting those objects or introducing new objects in order to provide that view. There are other run-time use cases, but for me, mostly development and debugging, without being intrusive or having any real impact on the application or object store.