Posted by Janwillem Borleffs on 11/05/84 11:49

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

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