Jochem, Good point. I thought he meant object given his example. :P David Jochem Maas wrote: > David Grant wrote: >> Mathijs, >> >> Mathijs wrote: >> >>> I have the following situation : >>> >>> <?php >>> >>> class A { >>> public $var1; >>> } >>> >>> class B extends A { >>> public $var2; >>> } >>> >>> ?> >>> >>> Now I want to print this object > > ***object*** > >>> <?php >>> >>> $obj = new B; >>> print_r($obj); >>> >>> ?> >>> >>> Does anybody know how I can print class A also ? > > ***class*** > > (class and object are not interchangable concepts - yet > they are closely related :-) > > you printed $obj which is an instance of B, which happens to > be a subclass of A. if you are interested to find out which classes > an objects is defined by try something like: > > class A {} > class B extends A {} > class C extends B {} > $c = "C"; $classes = array($c); > while($c = get_parent_class($c)) > $classes[] = $c; > print_r($classes); > >> >> >> The above prints out: >> >> B Object >> ( >> [var2] => >> [var1] => >> ) >> >> Is this not what you expected? You can't print out *just* the >> properties of A. If this isn't what you want, you shouldn't be >> extending A. >> >> David > -- David Grant http://www.grant.org.uk/ http://pear.php.net/package/File_Ogg 0.2.1 http://pear.php.net/package/File_XSPF 0.1.0 WANTED: Junior PHP Developer in Bristol, UK -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php