Bug #54091 [Bgs]: class_exists fail with a class name alias

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54091&edit=1 ID: 54091 User updated by: jinmoku at hotmail dot com Reported by: jinmoku at hotmail dot com Summary: class_exists fail with a class name alias Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Class/Object related PHP Version: 5.3.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: try another thing : use \PDO as mysql; var_dump(method_exists('mysql', '__construct')); var_dump(method_exists('\PDO', '__construct')); /* bool(false) bool(true) */ something wrong no ? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-24 16:14:19] jinmoku at hotmail dot com Sorry, there is nothing about this in the documentation, how I can make an instance of this class if it's doesn't exists ??? it's not logical ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-24 16:00:04] johannes@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.dynamic.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-24 15:39:51] jinmoku at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ class_exists fail with a class name alias, ReflectionClass too Test script: --------------- use \stdClass as object; var_dump(new object); var_dump(class_exists('object')); Expected result: ---------------- object(stdClass)#1 (0) { } bool(true) Actual result: -------------- object(stdClass)#1 (0) { } bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54091&edit=1