I have attached a patch to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55490 that implements ReflectionClass::newInstanceWithoutConstructor() to create an object a class without invoking the constructor.
As there are certain internal classes that would "crash" when their constructor is not invoked, this new method of the Reflection API only works for userland-defined classes. Unless there are objections, I will commit this change to PHP_5_4 and trunk on Monday. I will add the method to the documentation as well, of course. -- Sebastian Bergmann Co-Founder and Principal Consultant http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://thePHP.cc/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
