PHP/Reflection/class parents
obtain by using class_parents(), class_implements(), get_class_methods(), and get_class_variables() in order to obtain information about the built-in ArrayIterator class:
<?
$class = "ArrayIterator";
eval("@\$object = new \$class();");
printf("<p>%s class parents: %s</p>\n", $class, print_r(class_parents($object), TRUE));
printf("<p>%s class implements: %s</p>\n", $class, implode(", ", class_implements($object)));
printf("<p>%s class methods: %s</p>\n", $class, implode(", ", get_class_methods($class)));
?>