PHP check whether property exists in object or class

Question

I understand PHP does not have a pure object variable, but I want to check whether a property is in the given object or class.

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Answer 1

property_exists( mixed $class , string $property )

if (property_exists($ob, 'a')) 

isset( mixed $var [, mixed $... ] )

if (isset($ob->a))

isset() will return false if property is null

Example 1:

$ob->a = null
var_dump(isset($ob->a)); // false

Example 2:

class Foo
{
   public $bar = null;
}

$foo = new Foo();

var_dump(property_exists($foo, 'bar')); // true
var_dump(isset($foo->bar)); // false

Answer 2

To check if the property exists and if it's null too, you can use the function property_exists().

Docs: http://php.net/manual/en/function.property-exists.php

As opposed with isset(), property_exists() returns TRUE even if the property has the value NULL.

bool property_exists ( mixed $class , string $property )

Example:

if (property_exists($testObject, $property)) {
    //do something
}

Answer 3

To check if something exits, you can use the PHP function isset() see php.net. This function will check if the variable is set and is not NULL.

Example:

if(isset($obj->a))
{ 
  //do something
}

If you need to check if a property exists in a class, then you can use the build in function property_exists()

Example:

if (property_exists('class', $property)) {
    //do something
}

Answer 4

If you want to know if a property exists in an instance of a class that you have defined, simply combine property_exists() with isset().

public function hasProperty($property)
{
    return property_exists($this, $property) && isset($this->$property);
}

Answer 5

Just putting my 2 cents here.

Given the following class:

class Foo
{
  private $data;

  public function __construct(array $data)
  {
    $this->data = $data;
  }

  public function __get($name)
  {
    return $data[$name];
  }

  public function __isset($name)
  {
    return array_key_exists($name, $this->data);
  }
}

the following will happen:

$foo = new Foo(['key' => 'value', 'bar' => null]);

var_dump(property_exists($foo, 'key'));  // false
var_dump(isset($foo->key));  // true
var_dump(property_exists($foo, 'bar'));  // false
var_dump(isset($foo->bar));  // true, although $data['bar'] == null

Hope this will help anyone

Answer 6

Using array_key_exists() on objects is Deprecated in php 7.4

Instead either isset() or property_exists() should be used

reference : php.net