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Shipping a test harness with your class in PHP Archive is an alternative ... if ($_SERVER[SCRIPT_FILENAME] == __FILE__) {Object Oriented Programming in PHP training course, I wrote a complete example that showed a test harness (and also polymorphism, inheritance, statics, etc!) ... source code [here] . There's also a very small application page [here] which makes use of the classes in that file but ignores the test harness completely!
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