PHP Constructors and Destructors

[darksteel21]

Hi to all...
I would just like ask about this codes :

<?php
class MyDestructableClass {
   function __construct() {
       print "In constructor\n";
       $this->name = "MyDestructableClass";
   }
 
   function __destruct() {
       print "Destroying " . $this->name . "\n";
   }
}
 

if you make a new instance of this class and after using it will it automatically destroy its instance or call its function __destruct()?how do we destroy the instance of class in PHP??

[r035198x]

You don't call it yourself. It's called automatically as soon as all references to that object are no longer existing.

[pbmods]

Heya, Darksteel.

You can delete a reference by using PHP's unset() function (http://php.net/unset).