[development] [views] Knowing the display type of a view

[Pierre Rineau]

On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 00:04 +0000, Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We tend to use the 'is_a' function, like so:
> 
> if (is_a($view->display_handler, 'views_plugin_display_page')) {
>   ...
> }
> 
> that way if you use a display handler that subclasses the page one,
> you still get your code executed.
> 
> http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-a.php

Then why don't use use instanceof ?

if ($view->display_handler instanceof views_plugin_display_page) {
}

<cite>
5.0.0 This function became deprecated in favour of the instanceof
operator. Calling this function will result in an E_STRICT warning. 
</cite>

Pierre.