Implicit Evaluation with PHP Archives: Reflection
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23 August 2006
Official Introspection, Reflect and Implicit Evaluation PHP.net resources
PHP.net actually provides documentation for each of these topics, but finding it can prove difficult. The following is a collection of the links I’ve discovered.
PHP5 Reflection Classes: These are explicit reflection methods specific to PHP5. I’ve never used them.
Object introspection functions: Introspection functions. There are slight differences in some between PHP4 and PHP5.
Zend Debugger Extensions: […]
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6 December 2005
What is Implicit Evaluation
This article covers implicit PHP evaluation. There is also an article on traditional PHP evaluation (dynamic evaluation using eval) if you’d prefer.
Evaluation is a technique, which, simply refers to evaluating code at runtime. Microsoft Excel does this when a formula is entered in a cell. Many programming languages offer this functionality through various avenues: Mozilla-based […]