Re: Does ReflectionMethod::setAccessible() do anything?

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:37 PM, David Harkness <david.h@highgearmedia.com>wrote: > According to the manual page for setAccessible() [1] the feature is > available with 5.3.2, and I'm running > > 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Sep 17 2010 13:49:46) > > so I should be good to go. However, even the simplest test to make a > protected or private method accessible fails. > > php > class Foo { protected function bar() { echo "foobar\n"; } } > php > $m = new ReflectionMethod('Foo', 'bar'); > php > $m->setAccessible(true); > php > $foo = new Foo(); > php > $foo->bar(); you just have to invoke the function from the context of the ReflectionMethod instance <?php class Foo { protected function bar() { echo "foobar\n"; } } $m = new ReflectionMethod('Foo', 'bar'); $m->setAccessible(true); $m->invokeArgs(new Foo(), array()); ?> -nathan