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Ryan Copley
Ryan Copley

Reputation: 873

Deleting entire PHP Class

class foo{
    ....
}

Say that class exists in my code, then later on I no longer need this class and wish to remove it (so I can replace it with a new class later)

Is it possible to delete an entire class from run time?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 15721

Answers (3)

Nish
Nish

Reputation: 2356

Use unset($classVariableName) to delete the instance and it will free the memory.

If the definition of the class shouldn't be there at run-time, then the class needs to be added in separate file and the file should be included only when it is require. So that you can have two different class definition with same class name. But having two different definition with same name is not a good way to go.

Upvotes: 5

Joe Malt
Joe Malt

Reputation: 397

You can use unset() to delete an object, but the class itself cannot be deleted. To be honest, modifying code like that at runtime sounds kludgy and confusing - is there not a better option?

Upvotes: 2

user149341
user149341

Reputation:

No, you cannot delete or substantially modify PHP classes (or functions) at runtime.

Upvotes: 8

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