Reflection and used classes

Hi Folks,

Is there any way of using reflection to find out what classes other
classes use?

I do not mean which classes extend other classes, I mean within methods,
for example, where the "new" keyword instantiates objects of other classes.

Any ideas?

Hi,

Don't know of a way to this with reflection.

You can use PHPXref to locate references to a particular class, or you
could try a recursive grep for a class identifier.

Regards,

John Peters

On Apr 25, 2:37 pm, Hugh Oxford <ares...@fas.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Is there any way of using reflection to find out what classes other
> classes use?
>
> I do not mean which classes extend other classes, I mean within methods,
> for example, where the "new" keyword instantiates objects of other classes.
>
> Any ideas?

petersprc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Don't know of a way to this with reflection.
>
> You can use PHPXref to locate references to a particular class, or you
> could try a recursive grep for a class identifier.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Peters
>

I like PHPxref, the problem is I use autoload. Maybe I could look at the
code.

Hugh Oxford wrote:

> Is there any way of using reflection to find out what classes other
> classes use?
>
> I do not mean which classes extend other classes, I mean within methods,
> for example, where the "new" keyword instantiates objects of other classes.
>
> Any ideas?

Sorry, but in languages like PHP here is no way to do such things
reliably. This is real code from my current project:

<CODE>
....
$classname=self::getClassName($classId);
$filename=strtolower($classId.'.object.php');

include_once $filename;

$object= new $classname($this,$parentId,$name);
....
</CODE>

Class names taken from XML file. So if you have case like this and
PHPxref is not enough for you - I think here are tools to do this as you
want.