Re: Reflecting Constants.

On 12 March 2013 14:01, Tomasz Sawicki <falundir@gmail.com> wrote: >> It would seem that without tokenising the class file, I'm sort of >> stuck with the solution I've got at the moment. >> >> Unless anyone has any ideas! > > > I faced similar problem with constants when doing WSDL generator. In my case > I wanted to extract constant description to include it in WSDL documentation > section. Unfortunately PHP Reflection API exposes only > ReflectionClass::getConstants method which doesn't return PHPDoc comments. > > My solution was to put following annotation in class PHPDoc for each > constant in the class: > @constant CONSTANT_NAME Description of constant. > > Of course you need to keep constant names in PHPDoc synchronised with code, > but in my case this annotation is required for every constant so I get > notified about any problems with it. > > -- > Tomasz Sawicki This is a good idea. It will allow me to use ReflectionClass->getDocComment() It does require the constant name to be present @vanity CONSTANT_NAME LONG_NAME,SHORT_NAME,HUMAN_NAME I've implemented this and it is working. I've @todo'd it to refactor if PHP has a ReflectionConstant class at some stage in the future. Thanks. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : @RQuadling EE : http://e-e.com/M_248814.html Zend : http://bit.ly/9O8vFY