Detailed explanation of PHP detection interface Traversable usage

  • 2021-08-31 07:26:52
  • OfStack

This article illustrates the usage of PHP detection interface Traversable. Share it for your reference, as follows:

Traversable is used to detect whether a class can be traversed by foreach, which is an internal engine interface that cannot be implemented in PHP script. In actual programming, we use Iterator interface or IteratorAggregate interface to realize traversal.

Interface Summary:


Traversable {
}

An important use of Traversable is to judge whether a class can be traversed. The following is an official example:


<?php
  if( !is_array( $items ) && !$items instanceof Traversable )
    //Throw exception here
?>

Note that arrays and objects can be traversed through foreach, but they do not implement the Traversable interface, so they are not examples of Traversable:


<?php
$array=[1,2,3];
$obj = (object) $array;
var_dump($array instanceof \Traversable);
var_dump($obj instanceof \Traversable);
?>

The above code output:


boolean false
boolean false

Supplementary notes:

Class does not implement an Iterator interface or an IteratorAggregate interface, performing an foreach traversal outputs all visible properties it can access

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