Print method content in PHP

Question

protected function _return()
{
   return 'something';
}

How to print content of method? I would like to echo return 'something'; as string...

Answer 1

You cannot do such a thing as getting the source-code of a method, from a running-code.

You'll have to cheat :

• Find out in which PHP file this method is
• Open that file
• Parse it
  • using regex or stuff like that might be a way...
  • or you could work with the Tokenizer Functions -- a better way to manipulate PHP code !