how to get needed parameters of a php method?

Question

i write an api generator, and need to read all methods with ist parameters by a defined class. read all Methods is done!

Example Class:

class Foo {

    function tester($test)
    {
     return "bar";
    }

    function test(Article $article)
    {
     return "bar";
    } 

}

get_class_methods = array('tester', 'test');

ok, now i have to know the parameters of each function, how can i solve this problem?

Important is TypeHinting.

Thanks

Jaffa · Answer 1 · 2011-09-13T07:40:10.117

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I don't know if there is any method to do this, but you can use php lexical analyzer.

You may read the file using token_get_all (see http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.token-get-all.php). Then parse it by yourself to get all classes, methods, parameters, and even parse comments if you want!

edited Sep 13 '11 at 07:40

answered Sep 13 '11 at 07:14

Jaffa

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Doctrine uses reflection, not the tokenizer. – Jani Hartikainen Sep 13 '11 at 07:16

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 13 '11 at 07:17

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ok, now i have to know the parameters of each function, how can i solve this problem?

Using the reflection API. Build a new ReflectionClass( 'Foo' ), get the method test and you can get its parameters by getParameters( ). Good luck!

answered Sep 13 '11 at 07:17

Berry Langerak

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 13 '11 at 07:16

You can do this with Zend_Reflection which is an extension to the PHP reflection classes.

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.reflection.html

When you have a Zend_Reflection_Parameter object you can get your type hinting value thru getType I expect.

how to get needed parameters of a php method?

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