Question

I want to ask you, in PHP if I created a new class in a function, will the memory freed in the end of the function?

For example: Class

class config
{
    var $mapProp    =   array("x"=>4333, "y"=>3520, "w"=>128, "h"=>128);
    var $gameProp   =   array("maxLevel"=>14, "tilesSize"=>256);
    var $mapUrl     =   'map_files';
    function getMapProp()
    {
        return $this->mapProp;
    }
    function getGameProp()
    {
        return $this->gameProp;
    }
    function getMapUrl()
    {
        return $this->mapUrl;
    }
}
$config = new config();

and the function

class framework
{
    function getUserMap()
    {
        require("class/config/config.php");
        require("class/imageManipulation/image.php");       

        $mapUrl     =   $config->getMapUrl();
        $x          =   $_GET['x'];
        $y          =   $_GET['y'];
        $level      =   $_GET['level'];

        $main_img   =   $mapUrl.'/'.$level.'/'.$x.'_'.$y.'.jpg'; 
        //Create a new class
        $image = new imageManipulation();

        //Set Up variables
        $image->setProp($config->getMapProp());
        $image->setGameProp($config->getGameProp());

        return $image->getImage($main_img, $level, $x, $y);
    }       
}
$framework = new framework();

require("class/framework/framework.php");

$path       =   $_GET['path'];

switch ($path) {
    case 'usermap':
        $framework->getUserMap();
        break;
}

in the getUserMap I have used two classes. One of them is the $config class the other is the $image class, after the end of the function will the memory used for this two classes be freed?

All the best,
Robert.

Answer 1

Yes it does. Local variables are disposed at the end of the function call. And if one of these local variables was an object, it is no longer referenced. Therefore it will get freed by the garbage collector.