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PHP shutdown sequence

I needed to figure out in what order PHP shuts down, after the end of a script has been reached, so I created a small testing script. Maybe this is of use for someone else trying to google this like I tried.

<?php

    // Testing shutdown sequence

    function shutdown() {

        echo "register_shutdown_function\n";

    }

    register_shutdown_function('shutdown');


    class MyClass {

        function __destruct() {

           echo "Object destructor\n";

        }


    }

    function obcallback($buffer) {

        $buffer .= "Output buffer callback\n";
        return $buffer;

    }

    ob_start('obcallback');

    $myObject = new MyClass;

    function dummy() { }

    function sessionclose() {

        echo "Session close\n";

    }

    function sessionwrite() {

        echo "Session write\n";
    }

    session_set_save_handler('dummy','sessionclose','dummy','sessionwrite','dummy','dummy');

    session_start();

?>

The output, on PHP 5.2.0 on the cli is:

register_shutdown_function
Object destructor
Output buffer callback
Session write
Session close

I was mostly interested in this because I wanted to work with a custom session handler. This means I can basically not use objects in combination with session handlers, unless I don't rely on $this.

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Comments

  • Richard Thomas

    Richard Thomas

    Yes you can, you need to register session_close in your register_shutdown_function

    Or

    register_shutdown_function("session_write_close");

    This closes the session up prior to the objects being destroyed
  • Evert

    Evert

    Thats smart!
  • Johannes

    Johannes

    That part of the PHP code is een good commented, so you can et the real order without much internals&C knowledge: http://lxr.php.net/source/php-src/main/main.c#1546
  • Evert

    Evert

    That is pretty cool.. looks like I haven't really missed anything =)
  • Adam

    Adam

    I always love investigative PHPing. Good work and very useful!
  • open source

    open source

    I think it is a tip of the day :)
  • zib3r

    zib3r

    Well , man .... it was awesome.. of course. You can be better than that.But what can i say.You can say just that you're the best and fuck the rest.Keep it up the good work.Bye . From Oradea/Romania/Alexandru.