PHP and Heap allocation

[the_lynx123]

Hello, I got started programming in C++ several years ago, and one of the things that i liked the most about that language is the ability to use the heap through pointers. I'm not sure if it is possible but, is there is any way to make PHP interact directly with the heap memory?. I didn't find anything so far, other than HeapTables for MySQL.

Thanks in advance

[bradgrafelman]

the_lynx123 wrote:

I'm not sure if it is possible but, is there is any way to make PHP interact directly with the heap memory?

That's a rather low-level operation that you simply don't have access to from within PHP itself.

You can always write your own custom modules for PHP in C, but out of curiosity... why would you want to do such a thing in PHP anyway? Can you give a coding example where you would use this?