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Doug Bierer
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Doug Bierer has been hooked on computers since his first program, written on a DEC PDP-8, in 1971. In his wide-ranging career, he has been a professional contract programmer since 1978, having written applications in BASIC, PL/I, assembler, FORTH, C, C++, dBase/FoxBase/Clipper, Pascal, Perl, Java, and PHP. He deployed his first website in 1993 while living in San Francisco. He speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and now resides in Thailand. He also spent some years doing system administration and TCP/IP networking. Some of his technical works include PHP 7 Programming Cookbook and Learning MongoDB 4.x (Packt), as well as Learning PHP and MySQL, Learning PHP Security and Learning Doctrine (O'Reilly Media).
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Discovering changes to the Reflection extension

The Reflection extension is used to perform introspection on objects, classes, methods, and functions, among other things. ReflectionClass and ReflectionObject produce information on a class or an object instance respectively. ReflectionFunction provides information on procedural-level functions. In addition, the Reflection extension has a set of secondary classes produced by the main classes mentioned just now. These secondary classes include ReflectionMethod, produced by ReflectionClass::getMethod(), ReflectionProperty, produced by ReflectionClass::getProperty(), and so forth.

You might wonder: Who uses this extension? The answer is: any application that needs to perform analysis on an external set of classes. This might include software that performs automated code generation, testing, or documentation generation. Classes that perform hydration (populating objects from arrays) also benefit from the Reflection extension.

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Doug Bierer has been hooked on computers since his first program, written on a DEC PDP-8, in 1971. In his wide-ranging career, he has been a professional contract programmer since 1978, having written applications in BASIC, PL/I, assembler, FORTH, C, C++, dBase/FoxBase/Clipper, Pascal, Perl, Java, and PHP. He deployed his first website in 1993 while living in San Francisco. He speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and now resides in Thailand. He also spent some years doing system administration and TCP/IP networking. Some of his technical works include PHP 7 Programming Cookbook and Learning MongoDB 4.x (Packt), as well as Learning PHP and MySQL, Learning PHP Security and Learning Doctrine (O'Reilly Media).
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