Object Persistence?

[Brandomonium]

Quick question -

Is there object persistence in PHP 5?

I ask because it seems that with all the associated memory overhead with OOP, I am wondering if there is another reason for PHP to go OO besides maintainability.

[keeB]

Maybe I am a newb, but what is Object Persistence?

I use objects mostly for maintainability and data / code consistency.. combined with sessions, it's quite powerful.

[Brandomonium]

In this case, Object Persistence would mean you can keep objects around after a script has been run.

I can't see this happening because once the script has executed, control is turned back over to the web server, and the PHP interpreter is cleaning up after the execution thread -- unless it doesn't.

[hitman6003]

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I can't see this happening
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You are correct.

You can create semi persistant variables using sessions and the like, but once the script ends, just like you would expect, all vars and objects, and usually, db connections are lost.

The only exception to this would be persistant db connections, which remain for a period of time.