note 28480 deleted from language.oop.constructor by danbrown

Note Submitter: ianyates at yahoo dot com ---- Although not very good practice, I had a use for it. In PHP you can destroy an object using unset(object instance) from outside of the object, but I needed to destroy the object from within. After much experimentation, I simply set $this to null within a function inside the object. This had the desired affect of removing the object from memory. Note that unsetting $this does not have the same affect. It would be better practice to set a variable within the object when it needed to be destroyed and then pick this up externally to mark the object as destroyed. Hope this helps someone.