As an object-orientted programming language, PHP 5 allows developers to declare constructor methods for classes.
Classes which have a constructor method will call this method on each newly-created object.
So in a way, constructor is used to automate the task of creating a new object.
The destructor method will be called when there are no references to a particular object, or during the shutdown sequence.
In the code below, the destructor will be called when the running of php script is completed.
<?php
class PopStar
{
public $person;
public $salary;
public $album;
function __construct($pop, $sal, $alb )
{
echo "Construct function automatically called";
echo "<br>";
$this->person = $pop;
$this->salary = $sal;
$this->album = $alb;
}
function __destruct(){
echo "Destruct function automatically called";
echo "<br>";
}
public function getSalary()
{
echo $this->salary;
}
}
$star = new PopStar("Madonna", 10000, "Crazy For You");
echo "The pop star salary is:";
echo "<br>";
$star->getSalary();
echo "<br>";
?>
The output from running the above script is:
