note 52229 added to language.oop

My problem was, to write a class-method, that destroyes the class itself. After many hours I found the (assured) only possibility to implement this: class A { function A() { } function DESTROY() { // this would not work: // unset($this); // but this: settype(&$this, 'null'); } } This test-code worked on PHP 4.3.1: $objA = new A(); var_dump($objA); // Object... $objA -> DESTROY(); var_dump($objA); // NULL !!! hth, Niels ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+52229 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52229&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52229&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52229&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52229&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52229&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+52229&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php