note 72075 added to function.get-object-vars

I was frustrated while writing unit tests that I could not 'get at' the private properties of the objects I was running tests on with the built-in version of get_object_vars(), so I came up with the following. It's ugly and hacky, but sometimes you really do need a bigger hammer... :-) <?php /** Like the PHP function get_object_vars(), but gets access to private properties too. @param mixed Object @return array Returns an associative array of object properties */ function getObjectVars($obj) { // Build PHP code for an array declaration from var_export() output $str = var_export( $obj, true ); $str = preg_replace('/^.*set_state\(/', '$properties = ', $str); $str = preg_replace('/\)\)$/', ');', $str); eval($str); // This variable was defined in the code that we ran in eval() return $properties; } ?> ---- Server IP: 202.89.36.242 Probable Submitter: 203.173.146.182 (proxied: unknown) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-object-vars.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/72075 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72075/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72075/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72075/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72075/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72075/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72075/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72075 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/72075 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php