“对象”这个词在PHP中有什么特殊含义吗？

Question

Adobe Dreamweaver highlights the word object in PHP sources and I'm wondering why. It's definitely not the name of the generic class, which is generic (Edit: sorry, it's actually stdClass not generic, which I always define myself in all projects).

And as you might have guessed it's not easy to google for answers to this question.

Answer 1

object is a data type in PHP. You typically find it in statements that cast stuff to objects. Additionally, passing an object to gettype() causes it to return the string 'object' (it's not a keyword, it just tells you that it's an actual PHP data type).

The "generic" class in PHP is stdClass. I haven't heard of generic being a PHP keyword, ever.