I have improved on ulf's improvement of stealz' code. I'm pretty sure the last "foreach" adds nothing, so I've removed it, as well as adding a check for string class names (as opposed to objects) to prevent the warning if the class is not found:<?phpfunction class_uses_deep($class, $autoload = true) { $traits = []; do { $class_name = is_object($class)? get_class($class): $class; if (class_exists($class_name, $autoload)) { $traits = array_merge(class_uses($class, $autoload), $traits); } } while ($class = get_parent_class($class)); $traits_to_search = $traits; while (!empty($traits_to_search)) { $new_traits = class_uses(array_pop($traits_to_search), $autoload); $traits = array_merge($new_traits, $traits); $traits_to_search = array_merge($new_traits, $traits_to_search); }; return array_unique($traits);}