Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #4173: add function property_exists() please

Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > There are bunch of FOO_exists() functions to check for existence of functions, class > > > > methods and such. There is no way to check if an object has given attribute, though. > > It's easy to do in PHP: > > > > # return true if property exists in given object > > # boolean property_exists(Object obj, string name) > > function > > property_exists($obj, $name) { > > $attrs = get_object_vars($obj); > > return isset($attrs[$name]); > > } > > > > but this should be core PHP function. > > Why? You can very easily do this: > > if (isset($obj->$name)) { .. } Ah, obvious :) Thanks for pointing out. The PR can be closed then. Jaromir