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<h1 class="refname">gc_collect_cycles</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">gc_collect_cycles</span> — <span class="dc-title">Forces collection of any existing garbage cycles</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">int</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>gc_collect_cycles</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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Forces collection of any existing garbage cycles.
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<p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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Returns number of collected cycles.
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<li class="member"><a href="features.gc.html" class="link">Garbage Collection</a></li>
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