Get class name from file

Question

I have a php file which contains only one class. how can I know what class is there by knowing the filename? I know I can do something with regexp matching but is there a st

Answer 1

You can do this in two ways:

• complex solution: open the file and through regex extract the class-name (like /class ([a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*)/)
• simply solution: name all your php files with the class-name contained (eg: the class TestFoo in the file TestFoo.php or TestFoo.class.php)