Posted by Thomas Mlynarczyk on 11/16/06 16:50

Also sprach petersprc@gmail.com:

[PHP 5.1.6:
(1) registered shutdown functions,
(2) Destructors,
(3) ob buffers]

> Maybe step 2 only invokes the destructor, leaving de-allocation to be
> done later?

In this case I should not rely upon the behaviour I observed? But as my
object is in global scope, it would seem more logical to me to "keep it
alive" until *after* the last of the three steps (as $GLOBALS should live
that long), in which case its destructor should not be called before.

> http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200509/msg00064.html

Thank you for this link. I think, the behaviour described there refers to an
older version (PHP 5.0.5) in which the destructors were called *before* the
shutdown functions. So it does not explain why I should be able to access an
object after its destructor has been called.

Greetings,
Thomas

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