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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] can't reflection on DateTime properties?
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> The object clearly has properties corresponding to it's internal state, but
> reflection doesn't seem to report them?

Reflection reports defined properties, but classes can have dynamic
properties that are not pre-defined. var_dump also has a separate
handler, so the object can present different information to var_dump.

> Also, what comes out of var_dump() appears to be something intended for
> human consumption? I'm guessing that's not the actual internal state of the
> object - most likely the internal state consists of the "timezone_type" and
> an integer timestamp?

In generic case, you can't have internal state of an object, that's why
it's internal. If you need to serialize data, there are
serialize/unserialize handlers for it.

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Stas Malyshev
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