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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 01:24:47 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New destructors implementation
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

At 23:45 04/02/2004, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Feb 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > 3.  The APIs have changed to allow for this new mechanism.  Instead of the
> > previous dtor callback, which was supposed to both call the destructor and
> > free the object's storage, there are now two separate callbacks - dtor
> > (call the destructor) and free_storage (guess).  Generally, for classes
> > which implement PHP-style objects, you should implement both of these
> > callbacks (though you can probably use the standard dtor callback).  For
> > overloaded classes such as SimpleXML, COM, etc. - you will most likely 
> only
> > have to implement the free_storage callback, as there's no destructor
> > per-se.  We already went over all the overloaded classes in the php-src 
> CVS
> > and moved most of the dtor callbacks to free_storage.  Note that the
> > interface is slightly different between these two callbacks - free_storage
> > doesn't receive the object handle.
>
>Is there an automatic call to __destruct() method then? Because I'd like
>my PHP-GTK objects to have that method called upon destruction and I
>don't feel like reimplementing the mechanism for doing that.

If it's a PHP-style object, then you can use zend_objects_destroy_object as 
your destructor callback (when calling zend_objects_store_put()), in which 
case __destruct() will be called.  That's how the regular PHP objects do it.

Zeev