Extended Reflection API for PHP 5

Sebastian Bergmann » 21 September 2006 » in PHP » 2 Comments

The Extended Reflection API enhances PHP 5 by providing access to type information and annotations that are embedded as doc-comments into the sourcecode.

Processable additions to the source code enable a wide range of new applications in general, and Web Services and Aspect-Oriented Programming in particular.

Over a year ago I started to work on a similar project. Due to time limitations this effort never reached a state I was comfortable with for a first release. Today I removed the initial sources from PEAR's CVS repository.
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  1. David
    21/09/2006 at 12:32 Permalink
    I created a class that extends the php5 reflection class with annotation support. I use it to generate WSDL files and handle DAO's. The notation style is the same as an array:

    /**
    * @Controller(type => DefaultController::TYPE_PLAIN, length => 100)
    */

    An example can be found in the /tests dir in the following download:
    http://jool.nl/2,download.html

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  2. johno
    24/10/2006 at 01:03 Permalink
    I used similar approach that extends ReflectionAPI.

    http://code.google.com/p/addendum/

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