Check if property is dynamic

[lorum]

Hello,

I am currently creating dynamic properties in a class and I would like to iterate only through these properties, not the predefined properties. Is there a way to do this?

Example:

class Example{
var $Var1 = "hi";
var $Var2 = 3;
}

$class = new Example();

$class->var3 = "Dynamic property";
$class->var4 = "Another dynamic property";

// This prints all properties, but I just want var3 & var4
foreach($class as $key => $value) {
 print "$key => $value";
}

PS. The predefined properties are always upper case in their first letter. The dynamic ones are never.

[eelixduppy]

Is this even possible to do? Because var3 and var4 are not part of the Example object...

Even if this is possible, it's poor OO programming. I would stick away from this.

If you need to iterate through something, then I would create a public array in the class definition:

class Example{ $Var1 = "hi"; $Var2 = 3; public $values = array(); }


Then when you want to add or whatever to that array you can do so:

$instance->values[] = "Dynamic property";
$instance->values[] = "Another one";