PHP magic methods

I can’t ever recall the magic methods of PHP and sometimes google doesn’t seem to display them as the first couple of hits, so for my own sake, a cheat-sheet of them with a few notes:

• __construct(/* arguments */) : called on construction of the object
• __destruct() : called when the object is destroyed
• __get($var) : called when the object does NOT contain the property $var or when $var is private or protected. ALSO called on empty($object->$var) if $var is private or protected
• __set($var, $value) : called when the object does NOT contain the property $var or when $var is private or protected.
• __call($method, $args) : called when the object does NOT contain the method $method. Unlike __get and __set it doesn’t hide private or protected methods.
• __callStatic($method, $args) : equivalent to __call but for static calls. New as of 5.3.
• __clone() : called on clone object.
• __isset($var): called when empty() or isset() is called on a non-existing or private or protected property.
  
• __unset($var) : called on unset when object does NOT contain $var or $var is private or protected.
• __sleep() : called if serialize() is called on the object. Should return array of properties that will be serialized before the object is destroyed. Allows object to do cleanup before serialization.
• __wakeup() : called if unserialize() is called on the object. Notifies the object that it is being brought back to life.
• __toString() : let’s a class decide what to return if it is converted to string.
• __invoke(/* arguments */) : called if the objectt is called as a function. New as of 5.3
• __set_state($array) : static method called for classes exported by var_export.

And, the manual page describing the methods.