Req #55490 [NEW]: Allow instantiating objects without invoking the constructor

From: sebastian Operating system: Irrelevant PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Reflection related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:Allow instantiating objects without invoking the constructor Description: ------------ Libraries such as Doctrine 2 and PHPUnit_MockObject (ab)use the unserialize() function (unserialize(sprintf('O:%d:"%s":0:{}', strlen($name), $name))) to instantiate an object of a class without invoking the constructor. It would be nice if the Reflection API provided a clean API for this use case that does not depend on implementation details of PHP's serializer. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55490&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55490&r=mysqlcfg