NYCPHP Meetup

[Andrew Yochum]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:30:33AM -0600, Jeff Knight wrote:
> Greetings from TX you chilly state-tax-paying nerds! I hear the
> group's alcohol consumption has diminished dramatically since I left.
> I bet T.G.I.F misses me the most.
> 
> I actually have a question for y'all (all'y'all? y'all all?). Is it
> possible to get the variable name used by an object from that object?
> If I had
> 
> class Example {	
> 	function varName() {
> 		// what goes here?
> 	}
> }
> 
> $nyphp = new Example() ; $txphp = new Example();
> 
> I want $nyphp->varName() to return the string 'nyphp', and
> $txphp->varName() to return 'txphp'

Not that I'm aware of.  You'd need access into the symbol tables.
Sounds like a nice extension.

On a related note, recently I've been itching for a wat to get the
Object ID of an object and possibly way to dereference it.

I mean the one that comes out when you do:
    class a { }
    $b = new a;
    print $b;
    # Output:
    # Object id #1
Yes, output buffering would work but that isn't quite right.
debug_zval_dump() has the same issue.

Ideas?

Thanks,
Andrew
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Andrew Yochum
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