[thelist] PHP4 objects and a short introduction

[Anthony Baratta]

Jon Molesa wrote:
> 
> Would that create the object $myObject each time or does PHP4 realize that 
> it has been created previously and just references it?  If it does create 
> the object each time is that the correct way to use objects?  Seems that 
> once it has been created my code should just be able to make use of it. 
> Similar in nature to session_start() recognizing that a session has 
> already been created.  Could someone please clear this up for me?  Thank 
> you and God bless.

Only items stored in the Session Object (and the session object itself) 
are persistent between page calls. Every other object created within a 
page is create and destroyed within the context of the page.

As soon as the code on a particular page is done, PHP cleans up and 
throws it all away.