note 97781 deleted from reflectionclass.getproperties by danbrown

Note Submitter: nicolassauvaget at yahoo dot fr ---- I would like to add some details about the script of muratyaman at gmail dot com. He uses a recursive function in order to navigate through the parent classes to get their attributes. I would mention it is not necessary as the following script shows the behaviour of reflection::GetProperties() with a class hierarchy : 1 <?php 2 3 class God 4 { 5 public $publicGodAttr = NULL; 6 protected $protectedGodAttr = NULL; 7 private $ProtectedGodAttr = NULL; 8 } 9 10 class Base extends God 11 { 12 public $publicBaseAttr = NULL; 13 protected $protectedBaseAttr = NULL; 14 private $ProtectedBaseAttr = NULL; 15 } 16 17 18 class Foo extends Base 19 { 20 public $alpha = 1; 21 protected $beta = 2; 22 private $gamma = 3; 23 24 public function listProperties () 25 { 26 $reflect = new ReflectionObject ($this); 27 //foreach ($reflect->getProperties (ReflectionProperty::IS_PUBLIC + 28 // ReflectionProperty::IS_PROTECTED) as $prop) 29 foreach ($reflect->getProperties () as $prop) 30 { 31 print $prop->getName ()."\n"; 32 } 33 } 34 } 35 36 $foo = new Foo (); 37 $foo->listProperties (); 38 39 ?> Here is the output : alpha beta gamma publicBaseAttr protectedBaseAttr publicGodAttr protectedGodAttr As you can see, GetProperties() respects the visibilty and the class hierarchy. There is no need to be recursive (and check the parent classes).