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bramus/reflection is a library that tries to make PHP's built-in Reflection better.

Built by Bram(us) Van Damme (https://www.bram.us) and Contributors

Prerequisites/Requirements

• PHP 7.2 or greater

Installation

Installation is possible using Composer

$ composer require bramus/reflection ~1.0

Usage

A note

All classes in bramus/reflection extend PHP's built-in versions. Therefore they have all of the functions like their parent class:

• \Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClass extends PHP's built-in ReflectionClass.
• \Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClassConstant extends PHP's built-in ReflectionClassConstant.

ReflectionClass

When compared to \ReflectionClass, \Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClass works exactly the same, but will:

• Return an associative array containing \Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClassConstant instances (instead of simple values) when calling getConstants().
• Return a \Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClassConstant instance (instead of simple value) when calling getConstant().

Here's an example comparing getConstant();

• Using PHP's built-in ReflectionClass:

   class Weekday
   {
   	/**
   	 * Monday
   	 */
   	const MONDAY = 1;
  
   	/**
   	 * Tuesday
   	 */
   	const TUESDAY = …
   }
  
   $reflected = new \ReflectionClass(Weekday::class);
   $constant = $reflected->getConstant('MONDAY');
  
   var_dump($constant);
   // int(1)

• Using \Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClass:

   class Weekday
   {
   	/**
   	 * Monday
   	 */
   	const MONDAY = 1;
  
   	/**
   	 * Tuesday
   	 */
   	const TUESDAY = …
   }
  
   $reflected = new \Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClass(Weekday::class);
   $constants = $reflected->getConstant('MONDAY');
  
   var_dump($constant);
   // object(Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClassConstant)#40 (2) {
   //   ["name"]=>
   //   string(6) "MONDAY"
   //   ["class"]=>
   //   string(7) "Weekday"
   //   ["docComment":"Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClassConstant":private]=>
   //   object(phpDocumentor\Reflection\DocBlock)#86 (7) {
   //     …
   //   }
   // }

ReflectionClassConstant

When compared to \ReflectionClassConstant, \Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClassConstant works exactly the same, but will:

• Return a \phpDocumentor\Reflection\DocBlock instance (instead of a string) when calling getDocComment()
• Provide you with a getDocCommentString() method in case you want to access the contents as \ReflectionClassConstant::getDocComment() would return
• Provide you with a getSummary() shorthand, directly on the \Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClassConstant instance.
• Provide you with a getDescription() shorthand, directly on the \Bramus\Reflection\ReflectionClassConstant instance.

Other Reflection Classes

Other Reflection Classes are not provided. They might be in the future.

Testing

bramus/reflection ships with unit tests using PHPUnit ~8.0.

• If PHPUnit is installed globally run phpunit to run the tests.
• If PHPUnit is not installed globally, install it locally throuh composer by running composer install --dev. Run the tests themselves by calling ./vendor/bin/phpunit or using the composer script composer test

$ composer test

License

bramus/reflection is released under the MIT public license. See the enclosed LICENSE for details.