====== PHP RFC: Your Title Here ======
  * Version: 1.0
  * Date: 2025-09-07
  * Author: Daniil Gentili, daniil.gentili@gmail.com
  * Status: Draft
  * Implementation: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/19080

===== Introduction =====

This RFC enables invoking of destructor methods after a fatal error (such as an execution timeout), to match the behavior of shutdown handlers, which are also always executed after a fatal error.


===== Proposal =====


==== Examples ====

This code will always work correctly under the new RFC:

<PHP>

final class StatCounter {
    private static self $instance;
    public static function get(): self {
        return self::$instance ??= new self;
    }

    private array $stats = [];
    private function __construct() {}

    public function __destruct() {
        // I.e. using influx/telegraf
        echo "Sending stats: ".json_encode($this->stats)."\n";
    }

    public function inc(string $key, int $by = 1): void {
        $this->stats[$key] ??= 0;
        $this->stats[$key] += $by;
    }
}

StatCounter::get()->inc('test');
StatCounter::get()->inc('test2');

// Stat reporting will always work on shutdown even if the following two lines are uncommented

//set_time_limit(1);
//while (1);

</PHP>


===== Backward Incompatible Changes =====

None.

===== Proposed PHP Version(s) =====

PHP 8.5

===== RFC Impact =====
==== To the Ecosystem ====

PHP code will be able to reliably use destructors to execute code on shutdown if needed, matching the behavior of the shutdown handler.

===== Open Issues =====

===== Voting Choices =====

<doodle title="Allow invoking destructors after a fatal error to match the behavior of shutdown handlers?" voteType="single" closed="true" closeon="2025-01-01T15:30:00Z">
   * Yes
   * No
</doodle>

===== Patches and Tests =====

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/19080/files