figure out members of an object?

[www.douglassdavis.com]

Say I am retrieving an object from a function...

The object really has no distinguishable type as far as my code can
tell (It's from a SOAP function, the objects returned do not have
different types).

$client = new SoapClient("/geocoder.wsdl") ;

// Retrieve the address coordinates
$result = $client->geocode($addre ss);

Now, there could be two "types" of objects returned, with two distinct
sets of members.

say one type has a member "prefix" and one has a member "prefix1"

my question is, how can I figure out which type the function has
returned? I don't think I can do isset( ) to test if a member exists.

[NC]

Re: figure out members of an object?

www.douglassdavis.com wrote:[color=blue]
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> Say I am retrieving an object from a function...[/color]
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> Now, there could be two "types" of objects returned, with two distinct
> sets of members.
>
> say one type has a member "prefix" and one has a member "prefix1"
>
> my question is, how can I figure out which type the function has
> returned?[/color]

Use get_object_vars () to obtain an associative array of defined object
properties for the returned object. Alternetively, use get_class() to
see the type of the returned object. For more information, see the
Manual:

http://www.php.net/get_object_vars

http://www.php.net/get_class

Cheers,
NC