Re: stdClass

cool, Im going to look more into the engine to see the working. I suppose PHP it isn't as memory intensive as JAVA Quick question, does the zend engine have a garbage collector while we are on the topic? "Hartmut Holzgraefe" <hartmut@php.net> wrote in message news:403F5E9B.4050905@php.net... > Jakes wrote: > > You calling it from the base so cleaning you be easier than > > looking for object referenced variables and setting them to null. > > Working in a large class hierarchy it could get painful. > > __destruct() > > and as far as object references in variables are concerned: > the engine destructs all instance member variables when an > object is destructed, so the reference counts of the > referenced objects are already deceremented > no need to free them by hand (this is even true for PHP 4) > > you only have to take care of cleanup yourself when you > have circular refence graphs ... > > -- > Hartmut Holzgraefe <hartmut@php.net>