Is there any reason I shouldn't do database calls from the destructor?

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Published on 2010-05-04T14:01:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 14:08 UTC
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I want to create a sort of datamapper library, where you'd do something like this:

$users = Users::getTable();
$users->add($newUser1);
$users->add($newUser2);

Now $users contains 2 user records, but they aren't yet persisted to the database. To be efficient, I'd like to flush them all at once. I would like to have a flush() method to do this (not an issue), but I'd also like for it to happen implicitly when the $users table reference falls out of scope. Is there any reason I shouldn't do this in the destructor?

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