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Request #74245 No other ways to get all constants from class but using reflection
Submitted: 2017-03-14 10:09 UTC Modified: 2017-03-17 12:22 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:4.5 ± 0.5
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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From: rusbik91 at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Performance problem
PHP Version: 7.1.2 OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2017-03-14 10:09 UTC] rusbik91 at gmail dot com 
Description:
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There is no other ways to get constants list from class but using reflection, that is really slow (look at example 1). 
For properties of class i can do it by using get_object_vars() and it is fast (look at example 2). Why we need it? PHP lacks of enum construction and we have to implement it via `const`.
If we want to get all enum values (like dictionary), so we need to use damned ReflectionClass. 
Would be very nice if we can get all const values by quick simple function.

btw, getConstants even does not have documentation, so you see how bad it is.

Test script:
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example 1: http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/e4d114eb2e339be4c6fc5d3a17877d96fbfbcc38
example 2: http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/8d0f8dcc733804fd2f78677bf6e2ac70bd942852

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 [2017-03-17 12:22 UTC] cmb@php.net 
> btw, getConstants even does not have documentation, so you see
> how bad it is.

If a function is warned as being currently undocumented, it
doesn't mean that the function is bad or shouldn't be used, but
rather that nobody had the time to properly document it.
 [2017-03-17 12:24 UTC] cmb@php.net 
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Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=342147
Log: Fix #74245: No other ways to get all constants from class but using reflection

We're not actually fixing this issue, but rather document
ReflectionClass::getConstants().
 [2020-02-07 06:06 UTC] phpdocbot@php.net 
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=c957c1054f209bf7785a192036505881d3d4f1a1
Log: Fix #74245: No other ways to get all constants from class but using reflection
 [2020-02-07 06:06 UTC] phpdocbot@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed
 
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