4.5. Reflection
4.5.1. Introduction
New to PHP 5 are its reflection capabilities (also referred to as introspection). These features enable you to gather information about your script at runtime; specifically, you can examine your functions, classes, and more. It also enables you to access such language objects by using the available meta-data. In many cases, the fact that PHP enables you to call functions indirectly (using $func(...)) or instantiate classes directly (new $classname(...)) is sufficient. However, in this section, you see that the provided reflection API is more powerful and gives you a rich set of tools to work directly with your application.
4.5.2. Reflection API
The reflection API consists of numerous classes that you can use ...
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