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Bug #46813 class_exists doesn`t work with fully qualified namespace
Submitted: 2008-12-09 17:20 UTC Modified: 2008-12-10 11:52 UTC
From: php at mobhoc dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Class/Object related
PHP Version: 5.3CVS-2008-12-09 (snap) OS: Gentoo Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-12-09 17:20 UTC] php at mobhoc dot de 
Description:
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The function class_exists doesn`t work with a fully qualified namespace.

Reproduce code:
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namespace test;
{
	class inner
	{
		
	}
}

$inner = new \test\inner();

var_dump(class_exists('\test\inner', false));

Expected result:
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true

Actual result:
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false

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 [2008-12-09 19:19 UTC] johannes@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2008-12-10 11:52 UTC] php at mobhoc dot de 
The function interface_exists has the same behaviour.

namespace test;
{
	interface inner
	{
		
	}
}

var_dump(interface_exists('\test\inner', false)); # false
 
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