destroy() causes an object and all its signal connections to be destroyed. During this process the "destroy" signal is emitted.

Note that the object's memory is currently not freed at the point of destruction, as the reference count is maintained by both the destroy() method within GTK, and the Zend registry within PHP. In both cases, this way of coping with object destruction has either changed or is about to change in the near future.

See also: unref() .