Question

I have several CONST’s defined on some classes, and want to get a list of them. For example:

class Profile {
    const LABEL_FIRST_NAME = "First Name";
    const LABEL_LAST_NAME = "Last Name";
    const LABEL_COMPANY_NAME = "Company";
}

Is there any way to get a list of the CONST’s defined on the Profile class? As far as I can tell, the closest option(get_defined_constants()) won’t do the trick.

What I actually need is a list of the constant names – something like this:

array('LABEL_FIRST_NAME',
    'LABEL_LAST_NAME',
    'LABEL_COMPANY_NAME')

Or:

array('Profile::LABEL_FIRST_NAME', 
    'Profile::LABEL_LAST_NAME',
    'Profile::LABEL_COMPANY_NAME')

Or even:

array('Profile::LABEL_FIRST_NAME'=>'First Name', 
    'Profile::LABEL_LAST_NAME'=>'Last Name',
    'Profile::LABEL_COMPANY_NAME'=>'Company')

Answer 1

You can use Reflection for this. Note that if you are doing this a lot you may want to looking at caching the result.

<?php
class Profile {
    const LABEL_FIRST_NAME = "First Name";
    const LABEL_LAST_NAME = "Last Name";
    const LABEL_COMPANY_NAME = "Company";
}


$refl = new ReflectionClass('Profile');
print_r($refl->getConstants());

Output:

Array
(
    'LABEL_FIRST_NAME' => 'First Name',
    'LABEL_LAST_NAME' => 'Last Name',
    'LABEL_COMPANY_NAME' => 'Company'
)