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(PHP 4, PHP 5)

Description

This function returns an array of method names defined for the class specified by class_name .

<?php
$class_methods = get_class_methods($my_class); // see below the full example
?>

Example 1. get_class_methods() example

<?php

class myclass {
    // constructor
    function myclass() 
    {
        return(true);
    }
    
    // method 1
    function myfunc1() 
    {
        return(true);
    }

    // method 2
    function myfunc2() 
    {
        return(true);
    }
}

$my_object = new myclass();

$class_methods = get_class_methods(get_class($my_object));

foreach ($class_methods as $method_name) {
    echo "$method_name\n";
}

?>

The above example will output:

myclass
myfunc1
myfunc2

As of PHP 5, this function returns the name of the methods as they were declared (case-sensitive). In PHP 4 they were lowercased.

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