#40348 [NEW]: Reading of private/protected properties should be allowed for Reflection API

From: thc at forestfactory dot de Operating system: any PHP version: 5.2.0 PHP Bug Type: Class/Object related Bug description: Reading of private/protected properties should be allowed for Reflection API Description: ------------ "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 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=40348&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40348&r=mysqlcfg