deviscoding/php-reflection

PHP Library of Reflection-style object classes, with additional functionality for PHP 7.0

dev-main 2026-01-13 14:38 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.0
• psr/container: ^1.0 || ^2.0

Requires (Dev)

• doctrine/annotations: ^1.0 || ^2.0
• doctrine/orm: ^2.5 || ^3.0 || ^3.6
• symfony/console: ^3.4 || ^4.4 || ^5.4 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/property-access: ^3.4 || ^4.4 || ^5.4 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/validator: ^3.4 || ^4.4 || ^5.4 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

LGPL-2.1

• AMJones

README

Library that adds additional Reflection-style classes, with additional functionality for PHP 7.0

ReflectionComment Classes

Parses the contents of a comment retrieved from a function, property or class. Each source type has a specific class which can be used to parse and retrieve individual tags from the PHPdoc comment.

Tags are returned as a ReflectionTag. In cases where tags may repeat such as @property, @method or @param, a TagBag is returned.

ReflectionVar Classes

Similar to ReflectionType, this class provides information on a type, such as a property type, parameter type, or method return type. Unlike ReflectionType, the data for a ReflectionVar can be pulled from the DocComment of the related reflection object.

Multiple types are presented as a ReflectionUnionVar, and singular types are presented as a ReflectionNamedVar, in the same manner as PHP 7.1+.

In cases where a PHPdoc indicates an array of a specific type, a ReflectionPrototypeVar is used to indicate this.

ReflectionTag Classes

These classes are used internally to represent a tag from a ReflectionComment.

Other Classes

ReflectionClassImports

This class parases the use statements above the class declaration in a class, in order to resolve types referred to by short names in PHPdoc comments.

ReflectionConstructor

This class provides insight into a class constructor, allowing for instantiation via an array of named arguments.

ReflectionName

This class provides manipulation of class, method, and property names, allowing for easy generation of method names from property names, and vice versa.

ReflectionAccess

This class provides basic information about wether a property is accessible within a class, whether directly or through a getter and/or setter.