Jochem,
Good point. I thought he meant object given his example. :P
David
Jochem Maas wrote:
> David Grant wrote:
>> Mathijs,
>>
>> Mathijs wrote:
>>
>>> I have the following situation :
>>>
>>> <?php
>>>
>>> class A {
>>> public $var1;
>>> }
>>>
>>> class B extends A {
>>> public $var2;
>>> }
>>>
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> Now I want to print this object
>
> ***object***
>
>>> <?php
>>>
>>> $obj = new B;
>>> print_r($obj);
>>>
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> Does anybody know how I can print class A also ?
>
> ***class***
>
> (class and object are not interchangable concepts - yet
> they are closely related :-)
>
> you printed $obj which is an instance of B, which happens to
> be a subclass of A. if you are interested to find out which classes
> an objects is defined by try something like:
>
> class A {}
> class B extends A {}
> class C extends B {}
> $c = "C"; $classes = array($c);
> while($c = get_parent_class($c))
> $classes[] = $c;
> print_r($classes);
>
>>
>>
>> The above prints out:
>>
>> B Object
>> (
>> [var2] =>
>> [var1] =>
>> )
>>
>> Is this not what you expected? You can't print out *just* the
>> properties of A. If this isn't what you want, you shouldn't be
>> extending A.
>>
>> David
>
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