Re: ReflectionClass::newInstanceWithoutConstructor()

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> wrote: >  I have attached a patch to > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55490 that >  implements ReflectionClass::newInstanceWithoutConstructor() to create an >  object a class without invoking the constructor. > >  As there are certain internal classes that would "crash" when their >  constructor is not invoked, this new method of the Reflection API only >  works for userland-defined classes. > >  Unless there are objections, I will commit this change to PHP_5_4 and >  trunk on Monday. I will add the method to the documentation as well, of >  course. > > -- > Sebastian Bergmann                    Co-Founder and Principal Consultant > http://sebastian-bergmann.de/                       >     http://thePHP.cc/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > hi Sebastian, would this method give the same result as unserialize("O:8:\"stdClass\":0:{}") for example? I used this trick in the past when I needed to instantiate a class without calling it's constructor. of course having a dedicated method for this is much more convenient -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu