Re: stdClass

From:	Michael Walter	Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:17:49 +0000
Subject:	Re: stdClass
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Jakes Potgieter wrote:

It would be nice to have a base class to inherit some special methods as we do in Java. [...] What would be useful methods contained in the base class?

Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephan Schmidt" <schst@php-tools.net> Newsgroups: php.internals To: "'Jakes'" <sunssoffun@hotmail.com> Cc: <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:46 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] stdClass
Hi,
Please can some explain to me what the stdClass is used for in PHP 5. I've tried to use the reflection API to reverse engineer it but it does not give you much on the stdClass
No. There is no such thing as Java's base class built into PHP. stdClass is just an empty "dummy class" that is used internally, for example if you cast an array to an object. You can also use stdClass if you need an object of no particular class.
Just one thing to add: It has been also available in PHP4. Stephan