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As of 2023-04-14 [https://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.getparentclass.php the official documentation] says {{fmt/quote|This function is currently not documented; only its argument list is available.}}, so we have to kind of reverse-engineer how it actually behaves.
As of 2023-04-14 [https://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.getparentclass.php the official documentation] says {{fmt/quote|This function is currently not documented; only its argument list is available.}}, so we have to kind of reverse-engineer how it actually behaves.
==Trait Objects==
==Trait Objects==
Tentatively, a trait used by another trait is not counted as a "parent class"; you have to look at <code>$oTrait->getTraits()</code>.
Tentatively, a trait used by another trait is not counted as a "parent class"; you have to look at [https://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.gettraits.php <tt>$oTrait->getTraits()</tt>]. This makes sense since [https://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.getparentclass.php <tt>getParentClass()</tt>] returns only one item, whereas a trait may [[PHP/trait/use|use]] more than one "parent" trait.

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ReflectionClass::getParentClass()

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As of 2023-04-14 the official documentation says «This function is currently not documented; only its argument list is available.», so we have to kind of reverse-engineer how it actually behaves.

Trait Objects

Tentatively, a trait used by another trait is not counted as a "parent class"; you have to look at $oTrait->getTraits(). This makes sense since getParentClass() returns only one item, whereas a trait may use more than one "parent" trait.