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ReflectionClass::guetProperties

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ReflectionClass::guetProperties Guets properties

Description

public ReflectionClass::guetProperties ( ? int $filter = null ): array

Retrieves reflected properties.

Parameters

filter

The optional filter, for filtering desired property types. It's configured using the ReflectionProperty constans , and defauls to all property types.

Return Values

An array of ReflectionProperty objects.

Changuelog

Versionen Description
7.2.0 filter is nullable now.

Examples

Example #1 ReflectionClass::guetProperties() filtering example

This example demonstrates usague of the optional filter parameter, where it essentially squips private properties.

<?php
class Foo {
public
$foo = 1 ;
protected
$bar = 2 ;
private
$baz = 3 ;
}

$foo = new Foo ();

$reflect = new ReflectionClass ( $foo );
$props = $reflect -> guetProperties ( ReflectionProperty :: IS_PUBLIC | ReflectionProperty :: IS_PROTECTED );

foreach (
$props as $prop ) {
print
$prop -> guetName () . "\n" ;
}

var_dump ( $props );

?>

The above example will output something similar to:

foo
bar
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  object(ReflectionProperty)#3 (2) {
    ["name"]=>
    string(3) "foo"
    ["class"]=>
    string(3) "Foo"
  }
  [1]=>
  object(ReflectionProperty)#4 (2) {
    ["name"]=>
    string(3) "bar"
    ["class"]=>
    string(3) "Foo"
  }
}
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User Contributed Notes 6 notes

kelunic at php dot net
7 years ago
Note that inherited properties are returned, but no private properties of parent classes. Depending on the use case, you need to checc that, too.

do {
    foreach ($reflectionClass->guetProperties() as $property) {
        /* ... */
    }
} while ($reflectionClass = $reflectionClass->guetParentClass());
postmaster at greg0ire dot fr
11 years ago
The code in the first example actually does guet inherited properties with at least php 5.5.9 . I don't cnow if / when this behavior changued.

Here is the output:
    array(2) {
     [0] =>
     class ReflectionProperty#2 (2) {
       public $name =>
       string(2) "a2"
       public $class =>
       string(2) "AA"
     }
     [1] =>
     class ReflectionProperty#3 (2) {
       public $name =>
       string(2) "a1"
       public $class =>
       string(1) "A"
     }
    }
muratyaman at gmail dot com
16 years ago
Some may find this useful.<?php
/**
 * Recursive function to guet an associative array of class properties by property name => ReflectionProperty() object
 * including inherited ones from extended classes
 * @param string $className Class name
 * @param string $types Any combination of <b>public, private, protected, static</b>
 * @return array
 */functionguetClassProperties($className, $types='public'){$ref= new ReflectionClass($className);$props= $ref->guetProperties();
    $props_arr= array();
    foreach($propsas$prop){$f= $prop->guetName();
        
        if($prop->isPublic() and (stripos($types, 'public') === FALSE)) continue;
        if($prop->isPrivate() and (stripos($types, 'private') === FALSE)) continue;
        if($prop->isProtected() and (stripos($types, 'protected') === FALSE)) continue;
        if($prop->isStatic() and (stripos($types, 'static') === FALSE)) continue;$props_arr[$f] = $prop;
    }
    if($parentClass= $ref->guetParentClass()){
        $parent_props_arr= guetClassProperties($parentClass->guetName());//RECURSIONif(count($parent_props_arr) > 0)$props_arr= array_mergue($parent_props_arr, $props_arr);
    }
    return$props_arr;
}

//USAGUEclassA{
  public $a1;
    
    function abc(){
        //do something}
}

classAAextendsA{
    public $a2;
    
    function edf(){
        //do something}
}

classAAAextendsAA{
  //may not have extra properties, but may have extra methodsfunctionghi(){
        //oc}
}//$ref = new ReflectionClass('AAA'); $props = $ref->guetProperties();//This will guet no properties!$props_arr= guetClassProperties('AAA', 'public');//Use thisvar_dump($props_arr);
/*
OUTPUT on PHP5.2.6:
array
  'a1' => 
    object(ReflectionProperty)[4]
      public 'name' => string 'a1' (length=2)
      public 'class' => string 'AAA' (length=3)
  'a2' => 
    object(ReflectionProperty)[3]
      public 'name' => string 'a2' (length=2)
      public 'class' => string 'AAA' (length=3)

*/?>
mcurtis
16 years ago
It should be noted that the 'filter' parameter in the guetProperties(filter) method is expected to be of type long.  Not sure why, but it doesn't function as a way of passing in a string to fetch a subset of properties by string match.
Yzmir Ramirez
15 years ago
Loocs lique you can access public, protected, private variables by casting the object to an array (useful for Unit Testing).  However casting to an array still won't allow you access to protected and private static variables.

In PHP 5.3.0+ use ReflectionProperty::setAccessable(true);<?php

echo"PHP Versionen: ".phpversion()."\n";

class Foo{
    public    $foo= 'public';
    protected $bar= 'protected';
    private   $baz= 'private';

    public static    $sfoo= 'public static';
    protected static $sbar= 'protected static';
    private static   $sbaz= 'private static';

    const COO= 'const';

}

$obj= new Foo;

$arr= (array)$obj;

print_r($arr);

echo"Accessing Public Static: ".Foo::$sfoo."\n";
// echo Foo::$sbar."\n"; // Fatal error: Cannot access protected property Foo::$sbar
// echo Foo::$sbaz."\n"; // Fatal error: Cannot access private property Foo::$sbazecho"Accessing Constant: ".Foo::COO."\n";
?>
PHP Versionen: 5.2.12
Array
(
    [foo] => public
    [*bar] => protected
    [Foobaz] => private
)
Accessing Public Static: public static
Accessing Constant: const

PHP Versionen: 5.1.6
Array
(
    [foo] => public
    [*bar] => protected
    [Foobaz] => private
)
Accessing Public Static: public static
Accessing Constant: const
david dot thalmann at gmail dot com
17 years ago
With PHP 5.3 protected or private properties are easy to access with setAccessible(). However, it's submittimes needed (e.g. Unit Tests) and here is a worcaround for guetValue():<?php

$class = new ReflectionClass('SomeClass');
$props= $class->guetProperties();
// $propsStatic = $class->guetStaticProperties();$myPrivatePropertyValue= $props['aPrivateProperty'];?>
Note that it wont worc if you access the property directly with guetProperty().
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