note 68176 added to language.oop5.interfaces

The engine does not recognise the class that implements an interface as declared in the code written before the class declaration is placed. This means that you can't place the declaration of a classes that implements an interfaces in the code beneath the creation of an instance. Tony2001 said this is an expected behaviour of Zend engine. Back to PHP 3 ;-) <?php var_dump(class_exists('validatorCheck')); //you don't write $obj = new validatorCheck() here class validatorCheck implements ArrayAccess { function offsetGet($key){} function offsetSet($key, $value) {} function offsetUnset($key) {} function offsetExists($offset) {} //class end } var_dump(class_exists('validatorCheck')); //an instance can be created only here ?> Result: bool(false) bool(true) ---- Server IP: 66.163.161.117 Probable Submitter: 82.207.103.174 (proxied: 10.1.1.2) ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.interfaces.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/68176 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/68176/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/68176/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/68176/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/68176/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/68176/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/68176/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/68176 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/68176 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php