Re: Print extended/parent classes

David Grant wrote:

Mathijs, Mathijs wrote:

I have the following situation : <?php class A { public $var1; } class B extends A { public $var2; } ?> Now I want to print this object

***object***

<?php $obj = new B; print_r($obj); ?> Does anybody know how I can print class A also ?

***class*** (class and object are not interchangable concepts - yet they are closely related :-) you printed $obj which is an instance of B, which happens to be a subclass of A. if you are interested to find out which classes an objects is defined by try something like: class A {} class B extends A {} class C extends B {} $c = "C"; $classes = array($c); while($c = get_parent_class($c)) $classes[] = $c; print_r($classes);

The above prints out: B Object (

    [var2] =>
    [var1] =>

) Is this not what you expected? You can't print out *just* the properties of A. If this isn't what you want, you shouldn't be extending A. David