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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:53:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Private properties, Inheritance, Reflection (5.3)
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 22:37 +0200, Roman Borschel wrote:
> Given the following simple classes
> 
> class Foo {
>      private $foo = 'value';
>      public function getFoo() { return $this->foo; }
> }
> class Bar extends Foo {}
> 
> Obviously, given an instance of Bar, say $bar, $bar->getFoo() returns  
> 'value'.
> 
> Now the question: How do I get at this value using reflection, given  
> an instance of Bar?

class Foo { private $foo = "value"; }
class Bar extends Foo {}
$f = new Foo;
// we have to know the context, as there might be multiple foo properties
$r = new ReflectionProperty("Foo", "foo");
$r->setAccessible(true);
var_dump($r->getValue($f));

works for me.

johannes