OOPS in PHP 5 - __destruct() Method

Posted by Hitesh Agrawal

October 30, 2007

Destructor are special function in Object Oriented Programming. It gets called automatically whenever object of a class is destroyed or goes out of scope. This is useful for clean up operation before cleaning the memory. PHP 5 uses special keyword “__destruct” to define destructor of the class.

Example on Destructor Class in PHP 5:

< ?
class employee
{
    function __destruct()
    {
        echo "Destructor Called";
    }
}
$a = new employee();
?>

So when the page operation is completed destructor function is called automatically.

NOTE:
Destructor should be define as public access specifier.

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