uhm? this sounds like a VERY bad idea to me... and very clumsy programming.

ok, i got answers like this a thousand times.

i am using php to write a console script. it should be able to dynamically load "modules" like DLLs under windows. These modules are, of course, coded in php and contain classes.

the first time when such a module is executed by "eval" all classes in it are defined in class namespace, everything is fine.

now i want to unload the module - who would i undefine it's class?
even if i didn't use classes - functions can't be undefined, either.

any other suggestions of how to implement a "DLL" like system? the only solution i can think of was encapsulating a general module in an class, instanciating it for every module i load, and call it's functions by the objects interface. but this will disable me from directly calling methods in my module...

i know this sounds weird, but php is such a flexible language, it should be able to load functions/objects dynamically!! this would be great.

I think you should bring this up on the engine2@lists.php.net . In the past I had also the same reasons for it (dynamic remote code updating with PHP-GTK, etc.) but this won't be implemented just because of a few feature requests.

I think the main problem is that "making it work" far exceeds the benefits over the time it takes to implement so we'll just have to forget it (imho).

Suspending.

It's engine2@lists.zend.com , sorry

couldn't you loop through the $classarray and unset each $key => $value 
of the array?

foreach ( $class as $key => $value ) {
 unset($class[$key])
}

that should fully obliterate reference to the class.  i think

The runkit extension[1] provides respective features, so I'm
closing this request.

[1] <http://php.net/manual/en/book.runkit.php>