Detecting end of method chain in PHP?

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Published on 2010-04-06T09:39:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 9:43 UTC
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Hello!

I cannot find a simple example about my question above: how can i detect the end of a method chain?

I'm just looked Zend_Db_Select for example but this one is too complex for this simple question i think.

Is it possible to catch the 'end' of a method chain in PHP?

thanks, fabrik

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