is_object
is_object
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
is_object — Finds whether a variable is an object
Description
bool is_object ( mixed $var )
Finds whether the given variable is an object.
Parameters
-
var
-
The variable being evaluated.
Return Values
Returns TRUE
if var
is an object, FALSE
otherwise.
Examples
Example #1 is_object() example
<?php // Declare a simple function to return an // array from our object function get_students($obj) { if (!is_object($obj)) { return false; } return $obj->students; } // Declare a new class instance and fill up // some values $obj = new stdClass(); $obj->students = array('Kalle', 'Ross', 'Felipe'); var_dump(get_students(null)); var_dump(get_students($obj)); ?>
Notes
Note:
This function will return
FALSE
if used on an unserialized object where the class definition is not present (even though gettype() returns object).
See Also
- is_bool() - Finds out whether a variable is a boolean
- is_int() - Find whether the type of a variable is integer
- is_float() - Finds whether the type of a variable is float
- is_string() - Find whether the type of a variable is string
- is_array() - Finds whether a variable is an array
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