Reflection woes

Hello, I've been using the Reflection API to automatically build a PHP skeleton file of all PHP-GTK elements, in order to enable code completion for PHP-GTK in Eclipse PDT, and probably any other PHP IDE since it would look like just any ordinary PHP file. However, in doing so, I've encountered what seem to be a few anomalies: (a) PHP-GTK classes return empty results on the getExtension()/getExtensionName() methods, unlike those in other extensions (b) some methods bear names which are reserved PHP words, and cannot therefore be declared as such. These reserved words are - "foreach"

    - PhpGtkCustomTreeModel
    - GtkListStore
    - GtkTextTagTable
    - GtkTreeModelFilter
    - GtkTreeModelSort
    - GtkTreeStore
    - GtkSourceTagTableand

- "unset"

    - GtkPrintSettings

These do not cause errors or even warnings on runtime, and indeed discussion on #php suggests it may be legit for an extension to define methods bearing the names of reserved words of the language, but it is unadvised. However, it prevents extending these classes in PHP by inheriting and redefining these methods, since defining such extensions results in a compile error. Since these methods are not marked with the "final" modifier, they should be inheritable, so this seems to be a bug indeed. (c) none of the methods supports the getPrototype() method, which causes an exception upon invokation. I'm not sure of the status of this methods, since it is listed in the PHP classbrowser: http://www.php.net/~helly/classbrowser/class.php?class=ReflectionMethod&extension=Reflection but not on the normal Reflection page: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.reflection.php#language.oop5.reflection.reflectionmethod Frederic G. MARAND http://php-gtk.eu/