Predefined Classes

Standard Defined Classes

These classes are defined in the standard set of functions included in the PHP build.

Directory: The class from which dir is instantiated.
stdClass
__PHP_Incomplete_Class

Predefined classes as of PHP 5

These additional predefined classes were introduced in PHP 5.0.0

exception
php_user_filter

Ming Defined Classes

These classes are defined in the Ming extension, and will only be available when that extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

swfshape
swffill
swfgradient
swfbitmap
swftext
swftextfield
swffont
swfdisplayitem
swfmovie
swfbutton
swfaction
swfmorph
swfsprite

Oracle 8 Defined Classes

These classes are defined in the Oracle 8 extension, and will only be available when that extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

OCI-Lob
OCI-Collection

qtdom Defined Classes

These classes are defined in the qtdom extension, and will only be available when that extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

QDomDocument
QDomNode

User Contributed Notes
Predefined Classes

Simon Kissane
14-Sep-2004 02:54


The above list is incomplete. For example, on my PHP 5.0 configuration (yours may differ depending on the extensions you choose to install), the following classes are predefined:



== "Core" ==

stdClass

Exception

__PHP_Incomplete_Class

php_user_filter

Directory



== Reflection API ==

ReflectionException

Reflection

ReflectionFunction

ReflectionParameter

ReflectionMethod

ReflectionClass

ReflectionObject

ReflectionProperty

ReflectionExtension



== SQLLite ==

SQLiteDatabase

SQLiteResult

SQLiteUnbuffered

SQLiteException



== Standard PHP Lib. ==

RecursiveIteratorIterator

FilterIterator

ParentIterator

LimitIterator

CachingIterator

CachingRecursiveIterator

ArrayObject

ArrayIterator

DirectoryIterator

RecursiveDirectoryIterator



== SimpleXML == 

SimpleXMLElement

SimpleXMLIterator



== DOM/XSL/XPath extensions ==

DOMException

DOMStringList

DOMNameList

DOMImplementationList

DOMImplementationSource

DOMImplementation

DOMNode

DOMNameSpaceNode

DOMDocumentFragment

DOMDocument

DOMNodeList

DOMNamedNodeMap

DOMCharacterData

DOMAttr

DOMElement

DOMText

DOMComment

DOMTypeinfo

DOMUserDataHandler

DOMDomError

DOMErrorHandler

DOMLocator

DOMConfiguration

DOMCdataSection

DOMDocumentType

DOMNotation

DOMEntity

DOMEntityReference

DOMProcessingInstruction

DOMStringExtend

DOMXPath

XSLTProcessor

unknown
23-Jul-2002 12:29


It's handy to have a array of the reserved classes.....


var_dump (get_declared_classes ());

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