On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebast...@php.net> wrote:
> I have attached a patch to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55490 that
> implements ReflectionClass::newInstanceWithoutConstructor() to create an
> object a class without invoking the constructor.
>
> As there are certain internal classes that would "crash" when their
> constructor is not invoked, this new method of the Reflection API only
> works for userland-defined classes.
>
> Unless there are objections, I will commit this change to PHP_5_4 and
> trunk on Monday. I will add the method to the documentation as well, of
> course.
>
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hi Sebastian,
would this method give the same result as
unserialize("O:8:\"stdClass\":0:{}") for example?
I used this trick in the past when I needed to instantiate a class
without calling it's constructor.
of course having a dedicated method for this is much more convenient
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