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I spent an hour trying to create mock setup for testing SQL queries. The explanation here, that a resource contains file handlers and therefore there is no sense in trying to create one is lame. Being unable to redefine functions, creating a fake resource was the second thing I tried to put test in place, but looking at the search results, I see I'm the first one to try... For me it looks like security by obscurity.
资源
资源是一种特殊变量，保存了到外部资源的一个引用。资源是通过专门的函数来建立和使用的。所有这些函数及其相应资源类型见附录。
Note: 资源类型是 PHP 4 引进的。
转换为资源
由于资源类型变量保存有为打开文件、数据库连接、图形画布区域等的特殊句柄，因此无法将其它类型的值转换为资源。
释放资源
由于 PHP4 Zend 引擎引进了资源计数系统，可以自动检测到一个资源不再被引用了（和 Java 一样）。这种情况下此资源使用的所有外部资源都会被垃圾回收系统释放。由此原因，很少需要用某些 free-result 函数来手工释放内存。
Note: 持久数据库连接比较特殊，它们不会被垃圾回收系统破坏。参见数据库永久连接一章。
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adrian dot dziubek at gmail dot com
07-Jul-2008 11:55
07-Jul-2008 11:55
evildictaitor at hotmail dot com
17-Aug-2004 01:25
17-Aug-2004 01:25
In response to yasuo_ohgaki, the reason for the inability of the $_SESSION[] variable to hold references is because a session is just a serialize()'d version of it's member variables saved under a unique filename, with this filename following the user around.
$_SESSION[] is therefore limited by the constraints of the serialize() function
Although this is not <i>strictly</i> true, ($_SESSION does some handling to convert messy variables (e.g. "s and ;s)) it cannot store resources due to the serialise() function's dependancy
isaac at chexbox dot com
23-Jun-2002 04:37
23-Jun-2002 04:37
For the the oblivious: An example of a resource would be a mysql database connection.
$result = mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "pass");
//$result variable is a resource.
print $result;
//will print: Resource ID#1, or something similar