philip Mon May 24 19:32:50 2004 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/language operators.xml
Log:
Mention the deprecated is_a() within the instanceof docs. Deals with bug #27503
See also get_class().
http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml?r1=1.66&r2=1.67&ty=u
Index: phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml:1.66 phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml:1.67
--- phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml:1.66 Wed May 5 16:19:50 2004
+++ phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml Mon May 24 19:32:50 2004
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.66 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.67 $ -->
<chapter id="language.operators">
<title>Operators</title>
<simpara>
@@ -882,7 +882,10 @@
object is of a specified <link linkend="language.oop">object class</link>.
</para>
<simpara>
- <literal>instanceof</literal> was introduced in PHP 5.
+ The <literal>instanceof</literal> operator was introduced in PHP 5.
+ Before this time <function>is_a</function> was used but
+ <function>is_a</function> has since been deprecated in favor of
+ <literal>instanceof</literal>.
</simpara>
<informalexample>
<programlisting>
@@ -903,11 +906,15 @@
]]>
</programlisting>
<simpara>
- As <literal>$thing</literal> is an object of type A, but not B, only the block
- dependent on the A type will be executed:
+ As <literal>$thing</literal> is an <type>object</type> of type A, but
+ not B, only the block dependent on the A type will be executed:
</simpara>
<screen>A</screen>
</informalexample>
+ <para>
+ See also <function>get_class</function> and
+ <function>is_a</function>.
+ </para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
