Maybe you mean you want to determine if class B is a subclass of class A. That's the same problem again. Even if PHP5 had a Class object (a la Java), you'd have to instantiate *it* in order to find the relationship between class A and class B. Prior to that point, you only have text strings to work with. I suppose you could search the text of the file for "extends FooBar" or something.
cheers,
Travis
Martin Towell wrote:
I have been playing with PHP5 and am liking it more and more. But I have one question about "instanceof"
If you have something like this:
<? class A { } class B extends A { } $x = new B; if ($x instanceof B) echo "B"; if ($x instanceof A) echo "A"; ?>
This would echo "BA". That's good, I understand that.
Now the question: Is it possible to determine if B is an instance of A without instantiating it?
Thanks Martin
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