Determining Object type?

[mshiltonj]

I know there is an is_type() function that returns a boolean on whether or a variable is an object..

What I'm looking for is a way to determine what type of object it is.

Something like:

string object_type ($object);

Is there a way to get that information in php?

[jc94062]

gettype?

[mshiltonj]

gettype only returns 'object', not the type of object it is.

[mshiltonj]

To clarify: I'm hoping to find the functionality of the 'ref' function in perl.