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<refentry xml:id="function.get-class-methods" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>get_class_methods</refname>
  <refpurpose>Gets the class methods' names</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>array</type><methodname>get_class_methods</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>mixed</type><parameter>class_name</parameter></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   Gets the class methods names.
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>class_name</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The class name or an object instance
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns an array of method names defined for the class specified by
   <parameter>class_name</parameter>. In case of an error, it returns &null;.
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="changelog">
  &reftitle.changelog;
  <para>
   <informaltable>
    <tgroup cols="2">
     <thead>
      <row>
       <entry>&Version;</entry>
       <entry>&Description;</entry>
      </row>
     </thead>
     <tbody>
      <row>
       <entry>5.0.0</entry>
       <entry>
        As of PHP 5, this function returns the name of the methods as they
        were declared (case-sensitive). In PHP 4 they were lowercased.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>4.0.6</entry>
       <entry>
        The ability of specifying the object itself has been added.
       </entry>
      </row>
     </tbody>
    </tgroup>
   </informaltable>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <para>
   <example>
    <title><function>get_class_methods</function> example</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php

class myclass {
    // constructor
    function myclass()
    {
        return(true);
    }

    // method 1
    function myfunc1()
    {
        return(true);
    }

    // method 2
    function myfunc2()
    {
        return(true);
    }
}

$class_methods = get_class_methods('myclass');
// or
$class_methods = get_class_methods(new myclass());

foreach ($class_methods as $method_name) {
    echo "$method_name\n";
}

?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    &example.outputs;
    <screen>
<![CDATA[
myclass
myfunc1
myfunc2
]]>
    </screen>
   </example>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>get_class</function></member>
    <member><function>get_class_vars</function></member>
    <member><function>get_object_vars</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
</refentry>

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