#34993 [NEW]: instanceof documentation & inheritance

From: graced at monroe dot wednet dot edu Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: instanceof documentation & inheritance Description: ------------ The documentation for the instanceof operator in the manual does not authoritatively say that the operator checks parent classes and interfaces as well as the base clase, i.e. class A { } class B extends A { } $thing = new B; if ($thing instanceof A) { echo 'A'; } if ($thing instanceof B) { echo 'B'; } // result: AB ?> -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=34993&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=34993&r=mysqlcfg