Re: Re: destroying COM objects

> "Rich Gray" > > I may be talking out of my proverbial but I believe unset() will just remove > the reference to the object it won't destroy the object itself which is why > I suggested $obj = null in my earlier message... however I'm probably being > pedantic as the next gc cycle will clean up objects with a 0 reference count > anyway... > > I suppose... > > $obj = null; > unset($obj); > > Would cover all bases... > Cheers > Rich > Not too sure although your point sounds correct. I must admit I don't use COM much via PHP so have not had to learn too much for what I need. Just what I have used has always caused problems unless I use unset(). If all else fails maybe you could write a little command line app which receives the COM reference and kills it... Cheers Mike