Comments on: Standardizing a way to represent an object in PHP http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2008/04/23/standardizing-a-way-to-represent-an-object-in-php/ The biggest and the best in the Northwest Sat, 03 Jul 2010 05:37:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Josh Schumacher http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2008/04/23/standardizing-a-way-to-represent-an-object-in-php/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Josh Schumacher Tue, 06 May 2008 19:00:47 +0000 http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2007/08/04/standardizing-a-way-to-represent-an-object-in-php/#comment-132 Thanks Matt, I updated my spelling for your sake. I've looked at reflection before and I want to have a chance to use in a project some time for sure! More info about php reflection can be found in the php manual - <a href="http://us.php.net/oop5.reflection" rel="nofollow">http://us.php.net/oop5.reflection</a> Thanks Matt, I updated my spelling for your sake. I’ve looked at reflection before and I want to have a chance to use in a project some time for sure!

More info about php reflection can be found in the php manual – http://us.php.net/oop5.reflection

]]> By: Matt http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2008/04/23/standardizing-a-way-to-represent-an-object-in-php/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Matt Tue, 06 May 2008 02:32:48 +0000 http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2007/08/04/standardizing-a-way-to-represent-an-object-in-php/#comment-131 Pseudo, Josh! It's Latin. Anyway, annotations are the way to go to expose properties or methods to an API in an automatic way. It's called Attribute-Oriented Programming (@OP) and it's integrated really well into Java and .NET. Some developers go overboard with it and use it for everything... but it really is ideal for this type of thing. For PHP, you have to use the reflection API and parse the DocBlock. The key method is ReflectionFunction::getDocComment(). Pseudo, Josh! It’s Latin.

Anyway, annotations are the way to go to expose properties or methods to an API in an automatic way. It’s called Attribute-Oriented Programming (@OP) and it’s integrated really well into Java and .NET. Some developers go overboard with it and use it for everything… but it really is ideal for this type of thing.

For PHP, you have to use the reflection API and parse the DocBlock. The key method is ReflectionFunction::getDocComment().

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