Serializable::serialize

The documentation here is somewhat misleading. Where it says "This method acts as the destructor of the object. The __destruct() method will not be called after this method," I believe the intent is not that the destructor is not run on the object itself, but that the destructor is not called /as part of the serialization process/. That is, the object will still be destructed as it goes out of scope as normal, but the destructor is not called as a part of the object's serialization.

I don't like the bad docs here, which are wrongly claiming that "serialize(): This method acts as the destructor of the object. The __destruct() method will not be called after this method.".They are simply meaning that serialize() will NOT call __destruct(). That is the ONLY thing they mean.Your object that is being serialized will continue to live as a normal object. So you should NOT treat serialize() as your destructor! Treat your object as a still-living copy that the user may be using!The destructor will always run as normal, later, when your object goes out of scope (or is forcibly unset() by you)).Example with proof:<?phpclass A implements Serializable{    public $data = [];    public function __destruct()    {        echo "Destruct of A called.\n";    }    public function serialize()    {        printf("- Serialize of %s called.\n", static::class);        return serialize($this->data);    }    public function unserialize($serialized)    {        printf("- Unserialize of %s called.\n", static::class);        $this->data = unserialize($serialized);    }}class B extends A{    public function __destruct()    {        echo "Destruct of B called.\n";    }}$a = new A();$a->data['inner_b'] = new B();var_dump($a);echo "-----------------\n";echo "Calling serialize($a):\n";$str = serialize($a);echo "-----------------\n";echo "End of script shutdown from here on:...\n";?>Result:```object(A)#1 (1) {  ["data"]=>  array(1) {    ["inner_b"]=>    object(B)#2 (1) {      ["data"]=>      array(0) {      }    }  }}-----------------Calling serialize($a):- Serialize of A called.- Serialize of B called.-----------------End of script shutdown from here on:...Destruct of A called.Destruct of B called.```