PHP magic methods and magic Constants

I have heard of the magic methods (functions) in PHP, but I have not learned about them. If it weren't for the day's pen questions, I guess I still couldn't take the initiative to understand this aspect. This is an explanation in the PHP manual. Magic method:Magic functions are built-in language features in PHP.ProgramIn some cases, if these magic functions are defined ("overloading" in the PHP Manual), PHP will call them and input the corresponding parameters, it can be considered as a hook function during PHP Execution. The following are common examples:
_ Construct () , _ Destruct () , _ Call () , _ Callstatic () , _ Get () , _ Set () , _ Isset () , _ Unset () , _ Sleep () , _ Wakeup () , _ Tostring () , _ Invoke () , _ Set_state () And  _ Clone ()  And other methods in
PHP is called"Magic"(Magic methods ). You cannot use these method names when naming your own class methods unless you want to use their magic functions.

The specific explanation is as follows:

1. _ Construct ()
Called when instantiating an object,
When _ construct and a function with the class name both exist, __construct will be called and the other will not be called.

2. _ Destruct ()

It is called when an object or object operation is terminated.

3. _ Call ()
Object calls a method,
If a method exists, it is called directly;
If not, the _ call function is called.

4. _ Get ()
When reading the attributes of an object,
If a property exists, the property value is directly returned;
If not, the _ Get function is called.

5. _ Set ()
When setting attributes of an object,
If an attribute exists, the value is assigned directly;
If not, the _ set function is called.

6. _ Tostring ()

It is called to print an object. Such as Echo $ OBJ; or print $ OBJ;

7. _ Clone ()

Called when cloning an object. For example: $ T = new test (); $ T1 = clone $ t;

8. _ Sleep ()

Serialize is called before. If the object is large and you want to delete something and serialize it, consider this function.

9. _ Wakeup ()

Unserialize is called to initialize objects.

10. _ Isset ()
It is called to check whether an object property exists. For example, isset ($ C-> name ).

11. _ Unset ()
Unset an object property is called. For example, unset ($ C-> name ).

12. _ Set_state ()
Called when var_export is called. Use the return value of _ set_state as the return value of var_export.

13. _ Autoload ()
When instantiating an object, if the corresponding class does not exist, this method is called.

Magic constant:

1. _ Line __
Returns the current row number in the file.

2. _ File __
Returns the complete file path and file name. If it is used in a include file, the include file name is returned. Starting from PhP 4.0.2, __file _ always contains an absolute path, while earlier versions sometimes contain a relative path.

3. _ Function __
Returns the function name (New in PHP 4.3.0 ). Starting from PHP 5, this constant returns the name (case sensitive) when the function is defined ). In PHP 4, the value is always lowercase letters.

4. _ Class __
The name of the returned class (New in PHP 4.3.0 ). Starting from PHP 5, this constant returns the name (case sensitive) when the class is defined ). In PHP 4, the value is always lowercase letters.

5. _ Method __
Method Name of the returned class (New PHP 5.0.0 ). Returns the name (case sensitive) when the method is defined ).

 

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