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Reply-To: Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Reflection API idea
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Jared,

  hey cool stuff! Any chance you could publish this or make it a PEAR class
or put it into the newly created Reflection extension as example?

best regards
marcus

Wednesday, November 23, 2005, 12:50:25 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,
>         This has been do-able in PHP5 for somewhile, (wrote a reflection
> browser while ago to show such things)
> http://www.ren.dotgeek.org/classbrowser/?class=DOMCdataSection

> Jared
>  
>> Here's an idea for the maintainer of the Reflection API, to 
>> be able to view the class a method is defined in (if not overridden).
>> 
>> 
>> class Vehicle {
>>     function go() {}
>>     function crash() {}
>> }
>> 
>> class Car extends Vehicle {
>>     function crash() {}
>>     function collectInsurance() {}
>> }
>> 
>> class Ford extends Car {
>>     function fixOrRepairDaily() {}
>> }
>> 
>> Reflection::export(new ReflectionClass(Car));
>> 
>> 
>> Class [ <user> class Ford extends Car ] {
>>   
>>   - Methods [4] {
>>     Method [ <user> public method fixOrRepairDaily ] {
>>     }
>> 
>>     Method [ <user> public method crash inherited from Car ] {
>>     }
>> 
>>     Method [ <user> public method collectInsurance inherited 
>> from Car ] {
>>     }
>> 
>>     Method [ <user> public method go inherited from Vehicle ] {
>>     }
>>   }
>> 
>> I am developing on a Windows machine so a Unified Patch isn't 
>> easily attainable (with the tools I have at least).
>> 
>> Psuedo Patch:
>> Modify _function_string in zend_reflection_api.c to take a 
>> zend_class_entry of the reflecting class or NULL if not used 
>> in a class context.
>> Then add the "inherited from" section as below (or however 
>> you'd like to implement).
>> 
>> string_printf(str, "%s", fptr->common.function_name); if 
>> (fptr->common.scope && memcmp(fptr->common.scope->name, ce->name)) {
>>     string_printf(str, " inherited from %s", 
>> fptr->common.scope->name); } string_printf(str, " ] {\n");
>> 
>> 
>> Not sure if this works in all situations, I'll leave that for 
>> you guys to determine if you think this is useful functionality.
>> 
>> Bob Silva
>> 
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Best regards,
 Marcus