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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 13:52:21 +0200
To: Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] get_class_vars() returned information ORDER
From: johannes@schlueters.de (=?utf-8?Q?Johannes_Schl=C3=BCter?=)



On Sep 9, 2012, at 10:22, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm curious whether the ORDER of the class properties returned by
>> get_class_vars(), is in some way guaranteed. I do not find mention of it
>> in the documentation.
>>=20
>=20
> The only real guarantee is that of how the class properties are stored
> in the hashtable. get_class_vars() is essentially just reading from a
> hashtable of class properties.=20

There's no such guarantee. The fact that it is using a Hashtable which has a=
n order is an implementation detail. This might change (even though a change=
 is unlikely) The only promise of get_class_vars() is to return all.

johannes