Hello,
I am playing around with an extension to the Zend Engine 2 to allow class
properties and methods to be tagged with attributes. These attributes would
then be accessible through the Reflection classes:
!---------- example -------------!
class Storable {
[serializer:toString; persistent:true; ] public $date;
function __construct() {
$this->date = new CDate();
}
...
...
}
$store = new Storable();
$rf = new ReflectionProperty("Storable","date");
$s = $rf->getAttributeValue("serializer");
if(!is_null($s) && method_exists($store, $s)) {
$v = $store->date->$s();
} else {
$v = $store->date;
}
echo "the value of the date property is $v";
!------------- /example -------------!
I would find the ability to set attributes extremely useful in building
frameworks a la Ruby On Rails.
Anyone think this is a good idea?
Duncan
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