Thanks Sherif and all, for your answers. So I will not rely on the order returned by get_class_vars (or get_class_methods), instead adding suitable code (actually roughly one additional line per class involved) to define my desired ordering by hand.
If you're curious, the use case I was thinking of, arose when implementing a logfile message formatting class hierarchy, where subclasses represent individual logfiles with different pieces of information that might be added to the logfile lines, in addition to the base message - stuff like PHP_SELF, the calling user, memory usage etc. I implement each of these different pieces as a separate trait with a formatting function of a certain prefix, and imagined I could just use the order of "use" statements in my subclasses, or as a proxy the method order, to stably define the order in which the pieces will the show in the logfile represented by that subclass. Now, I add a static::$order array to each subclass, where I name the pieces again (in addition to the use statements). best regards Patrick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
