note 116179 deleted from oop4.constructor by salathe

Note Submitter: Anonymous ---- "There are no destructors in PHP. You may use register_shutdown_function() instead to simulate most effects of destructors. " I thought this was a particularly strange statement, seeing as that I use __construct() en __destruct() the whole time. And surely, from http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.decon.php we can read this: "void __destruct ( void ) PHP 5 introduces a destructor concept similar to that of other object-oriented languages, such as C++. The destructor method will be called as soon as there are no other references to a particular object, or in any order during the shutdown sequence. " And even: "The destructor will be called even if script execution is stopped using exit(). Calling exit() in a destructor will prevent the remaining shutdown routines from executing." So PHP definitely supports destructors.