(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)
aggregate_properties_by_regexp — Selective class properties aggregation to an object using a regular expression
$object
, string $class_name
, string $regexp
[, bool $exclude
= false
] )Aggregates properties from a class to an existing object using a regular expression to match their names.
The properties whose names start with an underscore character (_), which are considered private to the aggregated class, are always excluded.
object
class_name
regexp
exclude
The optional parameter exclude
is used to
decide whether the regular expression will select the names of class
properties to include in the aggregation (i.e.
exclude
is FALSE
),
or to exclude from the aggregation
(exclude
is TRUE
).
No value is returned.