Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40348&edit=1
ID: 40348
Comment by: rasmus at mindplay dot dk
Reported by: thc at forestfactory dot de
Summary: Reading of private/protected properties should be
allowed for Reflection API
Status: Bogus
Type: Bug
Package: Class/Object related
Operating System: *
PHP Version: *
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
The following method enables access to protected and private properties:
http://de3.php.net/manual/en/reflectionproperty.setaccessible.php
Previous Comments:
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[2007-02-04 10:09:36] [email protected]
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
Use var_dump
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[2007-02-04 06:54:30] thc at forestfactory dot de
Description:
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"Fixing" "bug" #37816 in PHP 5.2.0 made Reflection more or less useless for the
one purpose I used it for: reverse-engineering and debugging. While I can
understand that there might be a reason for disallowing "setValue" on
private/protected properties, why shouldn't I be allowed to read the value of a
property?
I wrote a nice debugger/reflection class for 5.1.x which stopped working now.
And what will I do? I will use print_r() or var_export() and parse the output
using regular expressions or something to get the value. So what is the point
of this? I still get the value. You just made my code less readable and more
performance consuming
IMHO this was never a bug! And as #24852 mentions it isn't a bug that print_r()
gives access to values of non-public properties
Regards Thomas
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