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function_exists

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function_exists

Name

function_exists() - find the file containing a given function in an object

Synopsis

string function_exists( string str, object ob, int flag );

Description

Return the file name of the object that defines the function `str' in object `ob'. The returned value can be other than 'file_name(ob)' if the function is defined by an inherited object.

0 is returned if the function was not defined.

Note that function_exists() does not check shadows.

If `flag' is omitted or zero, functions that cannot be called are not returned (e.g. the function is returned only if call_other(ob, str) would succeed). If `flag' is nonzero, static and private functions are returned too.

See also

call_other()