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ID: 55475 Comment by: alan at akbkhome dot com Reported by: mads at gartneriet dot dk Summary: is_a() triggers autoloader Status: Assigned Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem PHP Version: 5.3.7 Assigned To: dmitry Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: @stas - the point of un-depreciating and working with a string was the second argument, not the first one. eg. is_a($something, 'might_be_not_loaded_class') rather than $something instanceof might_be_not_loaded_class Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-08-23 06:26:21] alan at akbkhome dot com >From the manual. "Returns TRUE if the object is of this class or has this class as one of its parents, FALSE otherwise." note the "FALSE otherwise" ... Defiantly a bug.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-08-23 05:17:52] mads at gartneriet dot dk DB_DataObject uses is_a() to check if a variable is both an object and an instance of a particular object. PEAR::isError() does too. This just gives warnings in my code, and I could of course easily fix these two places in my local pear-code. But then it will bite me the next time I upgrade those packages from PEAR. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-08-22 21:46:19] col...@php.net What code? Do you have some example? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-08-22 19:17:28] mads at gartneriet dot dk Maybe not a bug, but it is behaving different ind 5.3.7 than in the previous versions, which makes some of the code from PEAR that i use, give errors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-08-22 18:36:59] s...@php.net This is not a bug. If first argument is a string, it is interpreted as a class name and autoloader is called for it. Actually, IIRC, one the reasons why is_a was un-deprecated is that it can work with strings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55475 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55475&edit=1