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

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: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-02-04 10:09:36] helly@php.net 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-02-04 06:54:30] thc at forestfactory dot de 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40348&edit=1