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Reflection is one of the most powerful and perhaps one of the most underused features of the PHP language. If you’re tasked with building complex, extensible applications, it’s well wor your time to understand this powerful feature. Reflection can facilitate otherwise tedious and complicated tasks, such as autoloading plug-ins, automating documentation, and even extending the PHP language itself.
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© 2008 Kevin McArthur
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(2008). Reflection API. In: Pro PHP. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0279-0_7
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