I'm trying to dump elements of an object's private property through an anonymous function - of course I could achieve this in any number of other ways, but this highlights a PHP conundrum I can't solve off the top of my head, short of $foo = $this and using $foo - but THAT won't give me the private stuff, so... suggestions ?
Sample code:
class MyClass
{
private $payload = Array( 'a' => 'A element', 'b' => 'B element');
static $csvOrder = Array('b','a');
public function toCSV(){
$values = array_map(
function($name) use ($this) { return $this->payload[$name]; },
self::$csvOrder
);
return implode(',',$values);
}
}
$mc = new MyClass();
print $mc->toCSV();
I believe there is absolutely no way to do directly what you propose.
However, you can work around it either by making the anonymous method a class method (this is not what you asked for, but it could be a practical solution) or pulling everything you need out of $this
explicitly and passing the extracted values into the function:
class MyClass
{
private $payload = Array( 'a' => 'A element', 'b' => 'B element');
static $csvOrder = Array('b','a');
public function toCSV(){
$payload = $this->payload;
$values = array_map(
function($name) use ($payload) { return $payload[$name]; },
self::$csvOrder
);
return implode(',',$values);
}
}
You can hack around the limitation by creating a wrapper that utilizes Reflection to allow you to access all properties and methods. You can use it like this then:
$self = new FullAccessWrapper($this);
function () use ($self) { /* ... */ }
Here a sample implementation of the wrapper, taken from here:
class FullAccessWrapper
{
protected $_self;
protected $_refl;
public function __construct($self)
{
$this->_self = $self;
$this->_refl = new ReflectionObject($self);
}
public function __call($method, $args)
{
$mrefl = $this->_refl->getMethod($method);
$mrefl->setAccessible(true);
return $mrefl->invokeArgs($this->_self, $args);
}
public function __set($name, $value)
{
$prefl = $this->_refl->getProperty($name);
$prefl->setAccessible(true);
$prefl->setValue($this->_self, $value);
}
public function __get($name)
{
$prefl = $this->_refl->getProperty($name);
$prefl->setAccessible(true);
return $prefl->getValue($this->_self);
}
public function __isset($name)
{
$value = $this->__get($name);
return isset($value);
}
}
Obviously the above implementation doesn't cover all aspects (e.g. it can't use magic properties and methods).
As you said yourself, it is private and therefore in accessible.
You can:
- Pass $this->payload as a parameter to the anonymous function.
- Create a method in the class and use it instead.