note 28480 added to language.oop.constructor

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. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.constructor.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+28480 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+28480 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+28480