PHP RFC: ReflectionParameter::getClassName()

• Version: 0.2
• Date: 2015-01-30
• Author: Phil Sturgeon, me@philsturgeon.uk
• Status: Withdrawn
• First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/reflectionparameter-getclassname

Adds a new method to ReflectionParameter to allow easy access to a class name in a type hint, avoiding the need to actually load the class and use `getClass()->name`.

This method lets you access the class name of a type hint as a string:

<?php
 
use Bar\Baz;
 
class Foo {
  public function bar(Qux $qux, $bar, Baz $baz, \Bar\Quz $quz) {}
 
  public function waldo(array $wibble, callable $wobble) {}
}
 
$class = new ReflectionClass(Foo::class);
$method = $class->getMethod("bar");
$params = $method->getParameters();
 
var_dump($params[0]->getClassName()); // string(3) "Qux"
var_dump($params[1]->getClassName()); // NULL
var_dump($params[2]->getClassName()); // string(7) "Bar\Baz"
var_dump($params[3]->getClassName()); // string(7) "Bar\Quz"
 
$method = $class->getMethod("waldo");
$params = $method->getParameters();
var_dump($params[0]->getClassName()); // NULL
var_dump($params[1]->getClassName()); // NULL

This is only targeted at classes, not any other typehint. If scalar type hints come then I'm sure they'll have some new reflection methods. This is just getClass()->name but without the need to load the class.

None, unless somebody has made their own reflection extension and already have a getClassName() method.

PHP 7

None so far

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1039