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Thanks for the response. I knew that PHP was reference counted, but what I was asking (not particularly well) was more along the lines of: is it possible to ha

Thanks for the response. I knew that PHP was reference counted, but what I was asking (not particularly well) was more along the lines of: is it possible to have objects live longer than the scope of a single script ? IOW, is there a point at which the PHP runtime decides that it is going to collect/reclaim everything, similar to a process termination in the OS ? Or is it literally possible to implicitly allocate objects in a global fashion and have them stick around until the PHP runtime itself is terminated ? Thanks again.

wvenable 16y ago
When a single script terminates, all the memory is deallocated. Basically, as you said, it's just like process termination in the OS.
- TimJYoung 16y ago
  Thanks. That's what I thought, but I'm fairly new to PHP, and wasn't entirely sure.
- dan_netwalker 16y ago
  Well, in fact you could serialize/unserialize the objects and store them somewhere, making use of the "magic" functions __sleep() and __wakeup(), if I recall correctly. But yes, as soon as the web server ends the response or the script gets to the end, it's finished