To reflect on a namespaced class in PHP 5.3, you must always specify the fully qualified name of the class - even if you've aliased the containing namespace using a "use" statement.
So instead of:
<?php
use App\Core as Core;
$oReflectionClass = new ReflectionClass('Core\Singleton');
?>
You would type:
<?php
use App\Core as Core;
$oReflectionClass = new ReflectionClass('App\Core\Singleton');
?>
ReflectionClass::__construct
(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
ReflectionClass::__construct — Constructs a ReflectionClass
Description
Constructs a new ReflectionClass object.
Errors/Exceptions
Throws ReflectionException if the class to reflect does not exist.
Examples
Example #1 Basic usage ReflectionClass
<?php
$reflection = new ReflectionClass('Exception');
echo $reflection;
?>The above example will output something similar to:
Class [ <internal:Core> class Exception implements Stringable, Throwable ] {
- Constants [0] {
}
- Static properties [0] {
}
- Static methods [0] {
}
- Properties [7] {
Property [ protected $message = '' ]
Property [ private string $string = '' ]
Property [ protected $code = 0 ]
Property [ protected string $file = '' ]
Property [ protected int $line = 0 ]
Property [ private array $trace = [] ]
Property [ private ?Throwable $previous = NULL ]
}
- Methods [11] {
Method [ <internal:Core> private method __clone ] {
- Parameters [0] {
}
- Return [ void ]
}
Method [ <internal:Core, ctor> public method __construct ] {
- Parameters [3] {
Parameter #0 [ <optional> string $message = "" ]
Parameter #1 [ <optional> int $code = 0 ]
Parameter #2 [ <optional> ?Throwable $previous = null ]
}
}
Method [ <internal:Core> public method __wakeup ] {
- Parameters [0] {
}
- Tentative return [ void ]
}
Method [ <internal:Core, prototype Throwable> final public method getMessage ] {
- Parameters [0] {
}
- Return [ string ]
}
Method [ <internal:Core, prototype Throwable> final public method getCode ] {
- Parameters [0] {
}
}
Method [ <internal:Core, prototype Throwable> final public method getFile ] {
- Parameters [0] {
}
- Return [ string ]
}
Method [ <internal:Core, prototype Throwable> final public method getLine ] {
- Parameters [0] {
}
- Return [ int ]
}
Method [ <internal:Core, prototype Throwable> final public method getTrace ] {
- Parameters [0] {
}
- Return [ array ]
}
Method [ <internal:Core, prototype Throwable> final public method getPrevious ] {
- Parameters [0] {
}
- Return [ ?Throwable ]
}
Method [ <internal:Core, prototype Throwable> final public method getTraceAsString ] {
- Parameters [0] {
}
- Return [ string ]
}
Method [ <internal:Core, prototype Stringable> public method __toString ] {
- Parameters [0] {
}
- Return [ string ]
}
}
}
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User Contributed Notes 6 notes
danbettles at yahoo dot co dot uk ¶
9 years ago
me [at] klay [dot] me ¶
11 years ago
Example of usage:
public static function getClassData($class)
{
// Trying to create a new object of ReflectionClass class
$class = new ReflectionClass($class);
$details = sprintf('%s - %s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s',
$class->getName(),
$class->isInternal() ? 'internal class,' : 'user-defined class,',
$class->isTrait() ? ' is trait,' : '',
$class->isInterface() ? ' is interface,' : '',
$class->isAbstract() ? ' is abstract,' : '',
$class->isFinal() ? ' is final,' : '',
$class->isCloneable() ? ' is cloneable,' : '',
$class->isInstantiable() ? ' is instantiable,' : '',
$class->isIterateable() ? ' is iterable : ''
);
return '<pre class="debug">' . rtrim($details, ',') . '</pre>';
}
gafisher at griasolutions dot com ¶
12 years ago
Running the following code on Windows Vista (I know, I know), PHP 5.3.9, the ReflectionClass constructor actually throws a ReflectionException when the desired class cannot be instantiated:
<?php
try {
$ReflectedClass = new ReflectionClass('NonExist');
} catch (LogicException $Exception) {
die('Not gonna make it in here...');
} catch (ReflectionException $Exception) {
die('Your class does not exist!');
}
?>
ivo at jansch dot nl ¶
14 years ago
It's very useful to know that you can also use the ReflectionClass to inspect interfaces, even thouth Interfaces are not classes. Example:
<?php
interface Edible
{
public function eat();
}
$refl = new ReflectionClass("Edible");
$methods = $refl->getMethods();
?>
[Edit by danbrown AT php DOT net - Contains a bugfix by (dbl AT bnet DOT com) on 18-AUG-2010 with the following message: "underline had to be removed for it to work ( new Reflection_Class -> new ReflectionClass )"]
cspray at gmail dot com ¶
13 years ago
Useful to know that if you pass a string into the construct and the class cannot be instantiated for some reason a SPL LogicException will be thrown.
This code was ran on a Mac OS X 10.6.7, AMP, PHP 5.3+
<?php
// index.php
try {
$ReflectedClass = new ReflectionClass('NonExist');
} catch (LogicException $logicDuh) {
print_r($logicDuh);
}
?>
Will return a deeply nested array full of useful information about the error.
nulled ¶
10 years ago
if (is_file($classfile))
require_once $classfile;
if (! class_exists($classname, false))
exit('ERROR: ' . $classname . ' is not defined as a Class');
The above code is useful to tell if the class was defined. You could also use another commentors method using Try Catch Exceptions. But, if you do not use try blocks much, the above function based method works just fine.
From there, you can than call:
$class = new ReflectionClass($classname);
if (! $class->isSubclassOf('PanelCommon'))
exit("ERROR: {$classname} must extends PanelCommon");
if (! $class->isUserDefined())
exit("ERROR: {$classname} must be user defined and not internal to PHP");
if (! $class->IsInstantiable())
exit("ERROR: {$classname} must be IsInstantiable and not an Interface or Abstract class");
if (! $class->hasMethod('home'))
exit("ERROR: {$classname} lacks required method/function home()");
Forforth and so on.
