note 48255 modified in function.gettype by danbrown

Here is something that had me stumped with regards to gettype and is_object. Gettype will report an incomplete object as such, whereas is_object will return FALSE. <?php if (!is_object($incomplete_obj)) { echo 'This variable is not an object, it is a/an ' . gettype($incomplete_obj); } ?> Will print: This variable is not an object, it is a/an object --was-- Here is something that had me stumped with regards to gettype and is_object. Gettype will report an incomplete object as such, whereas is_object will return FALSE. if (!is_object($incomplete_obj)) { echo 'This variable is not an object, it is a/an ' . gettype($incomplete_obj); } Will print: This variable is not an object, it is a/an object http://php.net/manual/en/function.gettype.php