# Some kind of Reflection_Property::getLine() ?

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- Started by Johannes Schlueter on 2003-12-07T13:25:43+00:00
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## #6268 — Johannes Schlueter — 2003-12-07T13:25:43+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/6268#6268

Hi,

I've spent some time playing around with the reflection API. For testing 
it I wrote an extended syntax highlighter (if you like very ugly PHP 
source you can have a look at [1]) Now I'm missing a method like
   public int Reflection_Property::getLine()
which acts something like the 
Reflection_[Class|Function|Method]::getStartLine and returns the line 
number where a property was defined (a getStartLine() and a getEndLine() 
would work, too but imho for properties a single line would be enough). 
Since I neither know the Zend Engine internals nor C well I can't see 
wether this method can be implemented easily - but if I would realy like 
to have it within Beta 3 (so it can be part of PHP5.0.0).

johannes

[1] http://schlueters.de:8000/phpstuff/php5/prepend.php