Hi,
Yes I have been reading both sections and is aware of the different sections
for PHP 4 and 5. I was just hoping there was something missing in the manual
for PHP 4 as I'd love to have a __destruct method to work with. There are
other solutions around this. Basically I just want to make sure that the
objects that have a save() method are saved correctly before they are
destroyed. With PHP 4 I just need to do this "manually". I could probably
just write a cleanup function that will be executed in the end of each
scripts that checks if objects have a save() method and then executes that
one. better: Check if there is a method __destruct() existing and use
that when cleaning up. Then it would be forward compatible with PHP 5 as
well :)
Best regards,
Peter Lauri
www.dwsasia.com - company web site
www.lauri.se - personal web site
www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free
Message
From: Larry E. Ullman [mailto:LarryUllman (AT) DMCInsights (DOT) Com]
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:09 PM
To: Peter Lauri
Cc: php-general (AT) lists (DOT) php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] __construct __destruct in PHP 4
I have been trying going thru the PHP manual to find if there are any
equivalent to the __contruct and __destruct in PHP 4, but I cannot
find any
solution for this part. I know it was introduced in PHP 5, but as
__sleep
and __wakeup exist in PHP 4 already I was hoping there is something
like
__init and __die in PHP 4 :-)
In PHP 4 the constructor has the same name as the class (like C++). See
There is no destructor in PHP 4.
Larry
PS The manual has two sets of P documentation: one for PHP 4 &
another for PHP 5. Make sure you're viewing the right set.

Peter Lauri wrote:
Hi,

Yes I have been reading both sections and is aware of the different sections
for PHP 4 and 5. I was just hoping there was something missing in the manual
for PHP 4 as I'd love to have a __destruct method to work with. There are
other solutions around this. Basically I just want to make sure that the
objects that have a save() method are saved correctly before they are
destroyed. With PHP 4 I just need to do this "manually". I could probably
just write a cleanup function that will be executed in the end of each
scripts that checks if objects have a save() method and then executes that
one. better: Check if there is a method __destruct() existing and use
that when cleaning up. Then it would be forward compatible with PHP 5 as
well :)

alternative:

have each object register itself with a 'stack' and register a shutdown function
which automatically calls the save() method of each object in said stack
be careful to always using the 'reference' operator.

I wouldn't bother to try and make it php4/php5 compatible - the reference operator
of itself will make sure that you have to change the code for php5, besides that __destruct()
is not 'meant' to be called by userland code - and as far as I can tell it's
a bit lame (there is no garanteed order of destruction so you can't rely on other object still
being around and IIRC [somebody correct me if I'm wrong please] things like DB connections
are also gone by the time __destruct() is called - the same goes for access to STDIN, STDUT, etc.

Best regards,
Peter Lauri

www.dwsasia.com - company web site
www.lauri.se - personal web site
www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free

Message
From: Larry E. Ullman [mailto:LarryUllman (AT) DMCInsights (DOT) Com]
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:09 PM
To: Peter Lauri
Cc: php-general (AT) lists (DOT) php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] __construct __destruct in PHP 4

>I have been trying going thru the PHP manual to find if there are any
>equivalent to the __contruct and __destruct in PHP 4, but I cannot
>find any
>solution for this part. I know it was introduced in PHP 5, but as
>__sleep
>and __wakeup exist in PHP 4 already I was hoping there is something
>like
>__init and __die in PHP 4 :-)

In PHP 4 the constructor has the same name as the class (like C++). See

There is no destructor in PHP 4.

Larry

PS The manual has two sets of P documentation: one for PHP 4 &
another for PHP 5. Make sure you're viewing the right set.

PEAR has a bunch of backwards compatibility hacks, and I suspect this
might be already done there in one of those

Sun, January 28, 2007 8:17 am, Peter Lauri wrote:
Hi,

Yes I have been reading both sections and is aware of the different
sections
for PHP 4 and 5. I was just hoping there was something missing in the
manual
for PHP 4 as I'd love to have a __destruct method to work with. There
are
other solutions around this. Basically I just want to make sure that
the
objects that have a save() method are saved correctly before they are
destroyed. With PHP 4 I just need to do this "manually". I could
probably
just write a cleanup function that will be executed in the end of each
scripts that checks if objects have a save() method and then executes
that
one. better: Check if there is a method __destruct() existing and
use
that when cleaning up. Then it would be forward compatible with PHP 5
as
well :)

Best regards,
Peter Lauri

www.dwsasia.com - company web site
www.lauri.se - personal web site
www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free
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Message
From: Larry E. Ullman [mailto:LarryUllman (AT) DMCInsights (DOT) Com]
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:09 PM
To: Peter Lauri
Cc: php-general (AT) lists (DOT) php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] __construct __destruct in PHP 4
>
>I have been trying going thru the PHP manual to find if there are
>any
>equivalent to the __contruct and __destruct in PHP 4, but I cannot
>find any
>solution for this part. I know it was introduced in PHP 5, but as
>__sleep
>and __wakeup exist in PHP 4 already I was hoping there is something
>like
>__init and __die in PHP 4 :-)
>
In PHP 4 the constructor has the same name as the class (like C++).
See

There is no destructor in PHP 4.

Larry

PS The manual has two sets of P documentation: one for PHP 4 &
another for PHP 5. Make sure you're viewing the right set.