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]

Re: Reflection and used classes

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 <ares...@fas.co mwrote:

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]

Re: Reflection and used classes

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]

Re: Reflection and used classes

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);
$filename=strto lower($classId. '.object.php');

include_once $filename;

$object= new $classname($thi s,$parentId,$na me);
....
</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.