Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the PHP Class/Object Functions.
PHP Class/Object functions lets you obtain information about the classes and instance objects. You can get the name of the class to which an object belongs to, as well as it's member properties and methods.
PHP Class/Object functions lets you obtain information about the classes and instance objects. You can get the name of the class to which an object belongs to, as well as it's member properties and methods.
Installation
There is no Installation needed to use these functions; they are part of PHP core.
Runtime Configuration
It has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.
List of Functions
The following below is the list of class and object functions available in PHP, with early versions of PHP supported -
| Sr.No | Function & Description | PHP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | call_user_method_array() Call a user method given with an array of parameters [deprecated] | 4 |
| 2 | call_user_method() Call a user method on an specific object [deprecated] | 4 |
| 3 | class_exists() Checks if the class has been defined | 4 |
| 4 | get_class_methods() Gets the class methods' names | 4 |
| 5 | get_class_vars() Get the default properties of the class | 4 |
| 6 | get_class() Returns the name of the class of an object | 4 |
| 7 | get_declared_classes() Returns an array with the name of the defined classes | 4 |
| 8 | get_declared_interfaces() Returns an array of all declared interfaces | 5 |
| 9 | get_object_vars() Gets the properties of the given object | 4 |
| 10 | get_parent_class() Retrieves the parent class name for object or class | 4 |
| 11 | interface_exists() Checks if the interface has been defined | 5 |
| 12 | is_a() Checks if the object is of this class or has this class as one of its parents | 4 |
| 13 | is_subclass_of () Checks if the object has this class as one of its parents | 4 |
| 14 | method_exists() Checks if the class method exists | 4 |
| 15 | property_exists() Checks if the object or class has a property |
In our subsequent tutorials, we are going to be studying about each of the above listed PHP functions.
Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about the PHP class_exists() Function.
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