From:             indeyets at gmail dot com
Operating system: 
PHP version:      5.0.4
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  there is no easy way to check if class implements some 
interface

Description:
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there is no easy way to check if class implements some interface. This
is needed, when, for example, php-application has support for loading
external classes.

external classes have to implement some interface. And check for this
should happen BEFORE object creation. (for example, there might be a
need for some specific constructor syntax).

PHP 5.0 allows to do the following things:
1). $parent = get_parent_class("SomeClassName"). This would be
sufficient, if plugins _extend_ some base class. that's not our case -
wouldn't work for interfaces
2). if ($obj instanceof "SomeInterfaceName") {}. This would work, if we
could create object before the interface check. Wouldn't work for
non-existen objects
3). reflection API. it can do the thing, but overhead (both in code and
in resources) is too big


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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32603&edit=1
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http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=trysnapshot51
Fixed in CVS:                http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:              http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:       http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=needscript
Try newer version:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:         http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=support
Expected behavior:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=notwrong
Not enough info:             
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:             
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued:  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=php3
Daylight Savings:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=dst
IIS Stability:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=float
No Zend Extensions:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32603&r=mysqlcfg

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