#34993 [Opn->Csd]: instanceof documentation & inheritance

ID: 34993 Updated by: vrana@php.net Reported By: graced at monroe dot wednet dot edu -Status: Open +Status: Closed Bug Type: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better. "instanceof is used to determine whether a given object, his parents or their implemented interfaces are of a specified object class." Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-10-26 18:37:33] graced at monroe dot wednet dot edu 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=34993&edit=1