On 25 August 2011 10:46, Sebastian Bergmann <sebast...@php.net> wrote: > I have attached a patch to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55490 that > implements ReflectionClass::newInstanceWithoutConstructor() to create an > object a class without invoking the constructor. > > As there are certain internal classes that would "crash" when their > constructor is not invoked, this new method of the Reflection API only > works for userland-defined classes. > > Unless there are objections, I will commit this change to PHP_5_4 and > trunk on Monday. I will add the method to the documentation as well, of > course.
Wouldn't ReflectionClass::newMockInstance() be a better name? What other use cases exists? -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
