Re: New function proposal: spl_class_vars / params / contents

Christian Schneider wrote:

Nathan Rixham wrote:

seems to me that many of the new requests coming in, including my own stupid ones are because people want to build fast decent orm's in php -

Having built an ORM system myself I can say that you don't need Reflection (or even other fancy features not yet in PHP) for this. Maybe you are trying to use a hammer when the problem is not a nail, - Chris

likewise didn't use reflection myself when interfaces and class architecture can be used; but there is the whole persist objects that don't extend or implement you're own classes/interfaces thing - hence the possible reflection need (to get the private/protected properties) depends on the design approach I guess