PHP: Gets the class methods' names

Description

array get_class_methods ( mixed $class_name )

Gets the class methods names.

Parameters

class_name: The class name or an object instance

Return Values

Returns an array of method names defined for the class specified by class_name . In case of an error, it returns NULL.

ChangeLog

Version Description

5.0.0 As of PHP 5, this function returns the name of the methods as they were declared (case-sensitive). In PHP 4 they were lowercased.

4.0.6 The ability of specifying the object itself has been added.

Examples

Example #1 get_class_methods() example


<?php



class myclass {

    // constructor

    function myclass()

    {

        return(true);

    }



    // method 1

    function myfunc1()

    {

        return(true);

    }



    // method 2

    function myfunc2()

    {

        return(true);

    }

}



$class_methods = get_class_methods('myclass');

// or

$class_methods = get_class_methods(new myclass());



foreach ($class_methods as $method_name) {

    echo "$method_name\n";

}



?>

The above example will output:

myclass
myfunc1
myfunc2

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