PHP check whether property exists in object or class

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Micah picture Micah · Jan 19, 2013 · Viewed 179k times · Source

I understand PHP does not have a pure object variable, but I want to check whether a property is in the given object or class.

$ob = (object) array('a' => 1, 'b' => 12);

or

$ob = new stdClass;
$ob->a = 1;
$ob->b = 2;

In JS, I can write this to check if variable a exists in an object:

if ('a' in ob)

In PHP, can anything like this be done?

Thank you very much for your advice.

Answer

Peter picture Peter · Jan 19, 2013

property_exists( mixed $class , string $property )

if (property_exists($ob, 'a'))

isset( mixed $var [, mixed $... ] )

if (isset($ob->a))

isset() will return false if property is null

Example 1:

$ob->a = null
var_dump(isset($ob->a)); // false

Example 2: 

class Foo
{
   public $bar = null;
}

$foo = new Foo();

var_dump(property_exists($foo, 'bar')); // true
var_dump(isset($foo->bar)); // false

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