object-type – Tarik Billa

How to Check for a Specific Type of Object in PHP

February 24, 2023 by Tarik

You can use instanceof: if ($pdo instanceof PDO) { // it’s PDO } Be aware though, you can’t negate like !instanceof, so you’d instead do: if (!($pdo instanceof PDO)) { // it’s not PDO } Also, looking over your question, you can use object type-hinting, which helps enforce requirements, as well as simplify your check … Read more

How to check if an object is a certain type

December 24, 2022 by Tarik

In VB.NET, you need to use the GetType method to retrieve the type of an instance of an object, and the GetType() operator to retrieve the type of another known type. Once you have the two types, you can simply compare them using the Is operator. So your code should actually be written like this: … Read more