Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Michael Walter
Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: Jakes wrote: Oh, yes and special methods that you mentioned would come in handy too but from a object perspective. Maybe explicitly calling some sort finalize() method to clean un-referenced objects would also be handy. finalize() is one of the worst concepts of JAVA

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Michael Walter
Jakes wrote: cool, Im going to look more into the engine to see the working. I suppose PHP it isn't as memory intensive as JAVA Quick question, does the zend engine have a garbage collector while we are on the topic? As said, it uses reference counting. Cheers, Michael "Hartmut Holzgraefe" <[EMA

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Jakes
cool, Im going to look more into the engine to see the working. I suppose PHP it isn't as memory intensive as JAVA Quick question, does the zend engine have a garbage collector while we are on the topic? "Hartmut Holzgraefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jakes wrot

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Hartmut Holzgraefe
Jakes wrote: You calling it from the base so cleaning you be easier than looking for object referenced variables and setting them to null. Working in a large class hierarchy it could get painful. __destruct() and as far as object references in variables are concerned: the engine destructs all inst

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Hartmut Holzgraefe
Jakes wrote: Oh, yes and special methods that you mentioned would come in handy too but from a object perspective. Maybe explicitly calling some sort finalize() method to clean un-referenced objects would also be handy. finalize() is one of the worst concepts of JAVA that i can think of: a somehow-

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Jakes
counting garbage > collector? > > Cheers, > Michael > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Jakes Potgieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Newsgroups: php.internals > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Michael Walter
collector? Cheers, Michael - Original Message - From: "Jakes Potgieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: php.internals To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stephan Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:42 PM Subjec

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Jakes
]> Newsgroups: php.internals To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stephan Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass > When Im talking about something like this would come in handy > obviously doe

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Jakes Potgieter
; print $obj->doSomething(); - Original Message - From: "Hartmut Holzgraefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakes Potgieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephan Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, Februar

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Hartmut Holzgraefe
Jakes Potgieter wrote: It would be nice to have a base class to inherit some special methods as we do in Java. could you name which ones you think of? being out of the JAVA camp for several years know i no longer know all java.object methods and properties by heart, but PHP mechanisms like __sle

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Michael Walter
nals To: "'Jakes'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:46 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] stdClass Hi, Please can some explain to me what the stdClass is used for in PHP 5. I've tried to use the reflection API to rev

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Jakes Potgieter
]> Newsgroups: php.internals To: "'Jakes'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:46 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] stdClass > Hi, > > > > Please can some explain to me what the stdClass is used for in > >

RE: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Stephan Schmidt
Hi, > > Please can some explain to me what the stdClass is used for in > > PHP 5. I've tried to use the reflection API to reverse engineer it > > but it does not give you much on the stdClass > No. There is no such thing as Java's base class built into PHP. > stdClass is just an empty "dummy cl

Re: [PHP-DEV] stdClass

2004-02-27 Thread Stig S. Bakken
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 14:15, Jakes wrote: > Please can some explain to me what the stdClass is used for in > PHP 5. I've tried to use the reflection API to reverse engineer it > but it does not give you much on the stdClass > > What methods can be inherited from this class? > > Does it work the