is stdClass officially supported by PHP ?

[Skrol29]

Hello,

It can be very usefull to code:
$obj = new stdClass;
Unfortunately the few that the documentation officially tells about
this class is:
******************************
The name stdClass is used internally by Zend and is reserved. You
cannot have a class named stdClass in PHP.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php
******************************

It seems that some Pear packages instanciate this class.
But should we do the same for code intended for public releases?

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[Janwillem Borleffs]

Skrol29 wrote:

Unfortunately the few that the documentation officially tells about
this class is:
******************************
The name stdClass is used internally by Zend and is reserved. You
cannot have a class named stdClass in PHP.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php
******************************

It seems that some Pear packages instanciate this class.
But should we do the same for code intended for public releases?

This just means you cannot do:

class stdClass {}

But can savely do:

$foo = new stdClass;

Another example:

$obj = (object) null;
print is_a($obj, 'stdClass') ? 1 : 0;

Or:

$obj = (object) null;
print $obj instanceof stdClass ? 1 : 0;

Both print 1...
JW

[Skrol29]

Thanks Janwillem,

It seems that :
$obj = (object) null;
is documented, but the equivalent :
$obj = new clsClass;
is not documented, except in the examples provided under the doc.
clsClass is just mentioned to be a special class name but usage is not
described. Which maybe means it can change in the future.

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http://www.tinybutstrong.com
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Janwillem Borleffs a écrit :

Skrol29 wrote:

Unfortunately the few that the documentation officially tells about
this class is:
******************************
The name stdClass is used internally by Zend and is reserved. You
cannot have a class named stdClass in PHP.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php
******************************

It seems that some Pear packages instanciate this class.
But should we do the same for code intended for public releases?

This just means you cannot do:

class stdClass {}

But can savely do:

$foo = new stdClass;

Another example:

$obj = (object) null;
print is_a($obj, 'stdClass') ? 1 : 0;

Or:

$obj = (object) null;
print $obj instanceof stdClass ? 1 : 0;

Both print 1...


JW

[Chung Leong]

Skrol29 wrote:

Hello,

It can be very usefull to code:
$obj = new stdClass;
Unfortunately the few that the documentation officially tells about
this class is:
******************************
The name stdClass is used internally by Zend and is reserved. You
cannot have a class named stdClass in PHP.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php
******************************

It seems that some Pear packages instanciate this class.
But should we do the same for code intended for public releases?

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Skrol29
http://www.tinybutstrong.com
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Not that I'm aware of. I vaguely remember that it was called something
else in PHP 3, something like phpStdClass.

It's probably better to let the object autovivicate.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Skrol29 wrote:

Hello,

It can be very usefull to code:
$obj = new stdClass;
Unfortunately the few that the documentation officially tells about
this class is:

<snip>

IIRC, it's a base PHP class. It is usually used to stuff properties:
$config = new stdClass;
$config->name = 'Foo site';
$config->db = 'foo';

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