RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: destroying COM objects

It really depends on what COM object your using. If the COM is an application with a specific close function, then you should use this aswell as unsetting the assigned variable. I had great problems getting Excel to shutdown once it was initiated from within PHP, simply unsetting a variable in PHP won't do this, and you quickly get a flooded machine with no memory or CPU power :p chris kranz fatcuban.com -----Original Message----- From: Michael Power [mailto:michaelpower@concentrix.co.uk] Sent: 28 February 2003 11:58 To: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] 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 -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php