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class_exists

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

class_exists — Vérifie qu'une classe a été définie

Description

bool class_exists ( string $class_name [, bool $autoload ] )

Cette fonction vérifie si une classe donnée a été définie.

Liste de paramètres

class_name

Le nom de la classe. Sensible à la casse.

autoload

Si l'on doit appeler __autoload ou non par défaut. TRUE par défaut.

Valeurs de retour

Retourne TRUE si class_name est une classe définie, FALSE sinon.

Historique

Version Description
5.0.2 Ne retourne plus TRUE pour les interfaces définies. Utilisez la fonction interface_exists().
5.0.0 La paramètre autoload a été ajoutée.

Exemples

Exemple #1 Exemple avec class_exists()

<?php
// Vérifiez que la classe existe avant de l'utiliser
if (class_exists('MyClass')) {
    
$myclass = new MyClass();
}

?>

Exemple #2 Exemple avec le paramètre autoload

<?php
function __autoload($class)
{
    include(
$class '.php');

    
// Vérifie si l'include définie la classe
    
if (!class_exists($classfalse)) {
        
trigger_error("Impossible de charger la classe : $class"E_USER_WARNING);
    }
}

if (
class_exists('MyClass')) {
    
$myclass = new MyClass();
}

?>



get_class_methods> <call_user_method
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Radek @ cz
05-May-2008 06:43
If you want to combat many class includes effectively, define your own autoloader function and spl_autoload_register() that autoloader.
richard at richard-sumilang dot com
27-Mar-2008 01:56
[ >= PHP 5.3]

If you are checking if a class exists that is in a specific namespace then you have to pass in the full path to the class:

echo (class_exists("com::richardsumilang::common::MyClass")) ? "Yes" : "No";
Frayja
01-Jun-2006 01:42
Like someone else pointed out class_exists() is case-INsensitive.

Using in_array() which is case-sensitive, the following function is a case-sensitive version of class_exists().

<?php
function class_exists_sensitive( $classname )
{
   return (
class_exists( $classname ) && in_array( $classname, get_declared_classes() ) );
}
?>
06-Apr-2004 05:04
Just a note that at least PHP 4.3.1 seems to crash under some situations if you call class_exists($foo) where $foo is an array (that is, the calling code is incorrect but the error recovery is far from perfect).
anonymous at somewhere dot tld
17-Jul-2003 12:20
If you have a directory of classes you want to create. (Modules in my instance)... you can do it like that

<?php
if (is_dir($this->MODULE_PATH) && $dh = opendir($this->MODULE_PATH)) {
   while ((
$file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {       
      if (
preg_match("/(Mod[a-zA-Z0-9]+).php/", $file, $matches)>0) {               
        
// include and create the class              
        
require_once($this->MODULE_PATH."/".$file);
        
$modules[] = new $matches[1]();
      }               
   }
} else {
   exit;
}
?>

//---
Here the rule is that all modules are on the form
ModModulename.php and that the class has the same name as the file.
The $modules array has all the classes initialized after this code
cristiano at aspatech dot com dot br
24-Jun-2002 11:36
This can be veeeery usefull if you use classes that uses other classes, which can be used in your front end. In other words, when you lost the control of which classes are declared in which point of the application, that can generate the "Cannot redeclare class". Use like

<?php
if ( !class_exists( "YourClass" ) ) {

    class
YourClass {
       
//your code
   
}
}
?>

Thats it... Resolve all your problems =)
spamless_blair at nb dot net
09-Oct-2001 01:48
I have a script that includes various class libraries depending on what is contained in the constant _INCLUDE_LIST which is a comma-delimited string.

define('_INCLUDE_LIST', 'CORE, LIB_DATA, LIB_EMAIL');

I use class_exists() to determine if a class definition has been included before creating an instance of it.

if(class_exists('CMySQLConnection')) $oData = new CMySQLConnection;

Hope it is helpful for someone!

-Jason Garber
IonZoft.com

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