Reflection and used classes

[Hugh Oxford]

Hi Folks,

Is there any way of using reflection to find out what classes other
classes use?

I do not mean which classes extend other classes, I mean within methods,
for example, where the "new" keyword instantiates objects of other classes.

Any ideas?

[petersprc]

Hi,

Don't know of a way to this with reflection.

You can use PHPXref to locate references to a particular class, or you
could try a recursive grep for a class identifier.

Regards,

John Peters

On Apr 25, 2:37 pm, Hugh Oxford <[e-mail]:

Hi Folks,

Is there any way of using reflection to find out what classes other
classes use?

I do not mean which classes extend other classes, I mean within methods,
for example, where the "new" keyword instantiates objects of other classes.

Any ideas?

[Hugh Oxford]

petersprc wrote:

Hi,

Don't know of a way to this with reflection.

You can use PHPXref to locate references to a particular class, or you
could try a recursive grep for a class identifier.

Regards,

John Peters

I like PHPxref, the problem is I use autoload. Maybe I could look at the
code.

[Alexey Kulentsov]

Hugh Oxford wrote:

Is there any way of using reflection to find out what classes other
classes use?

I do not mean which classes extend other classes, I mean within methods,
for example, where the "new" keyword instantiates objects of other classes.

Any ideas?

Sorry, but in languages like PHP here is no way to do such things
reliably. This is real code from my current project:

<CODE>
....
$classname=self::getClassName($classId);
$filename=strtolower($classId.'.object.php');

include_once $filename;

$object= new $classname($this,$parentId,$name);
....
</CODE>

Class names taken from XML file. So if you have case like this and
PHPxref is not enough for you - I think here are tools to do this as you
want.