crowdstar/reflection

Allow to directly access protected/private properties and call protected/private methods.

1.0.3 2021-05-28 19:09 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.3.3

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ~4.0|~5.0
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: >=2.0

Apache-2.0

README

A PHP reflection library to directly access protected/private properties and call protected/private methods.

This library works with major versions of PHP from 5.3 to 7.4.

Installation

composer require crowdstar/reflection:~1.0.0

Sample Usage

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use CrowdStar\Reflection\Reflection;

class Helper
{
    private $key;
    private static $keyStatic;

    private function get() {
        return 'private method invoked';
    }
    private static function getStatic(int $i, int $j) {
        return "private static method invoked with parameter {$i} and {$j}";
    }
};

$helper = new Helper();

// Access properties and invoke methods from objects.
Reflection::setProperty($helper, 'key', 'value from a private property');
echo "Output 1: ", Reflection::getProperty($helper, 'key'), "\n";
echo "Output 2: ", Reflection::callMethod($helper, 'get'), "\n";

// Access static properties and invoke static methods from objects.
Reflection::setProperty($helper, 'keyStatic', 'value from a private static property');
echo "Output 3: ", Reflection::getProperty($helper, 'keyStatic'), "\n";
echo "Output 4: ", Reflection::callMethod($helper, 'getStatic', array(1, 2)), "\n";

// Static properties and methods can also be accessed/invoked from a class directly.
Reflection::setProperty(Helper::class, 'keyStatic', 'another value from a private static property');
echo "Output 5: ", Reflection::getProperty(Helper::class, 'keyStatic'), "\n";
echo "Output 6: ", Reflection::callMethod(Helper::class, 'getStatic', array(3, 4)), "\n";
?>