Visibility of class properties

[jojojobbins]

Hi. I was wondering if anybody knows how to find if a class property is public, private or protected say via a function from within the class?

For instance if I did this:

class SomeClass
{
public $someProperty = 'whatever';
private $anotherProperty = 'whatever again';

public doingStuff()
{
print(visibility('someProperty'));
}
}

$someObject = new SomeClass();
someObject->doingStuff();

// Would print: public

Thank-you.

[drawmack]

Well you could use iteration to see if a propert is public, but you wouldn't know if it's private or protected.

[Shrike]

You can use the Reflection API to determine properties about a class.

$r = new ReflectionProperty("classname", "propname");
if($r->isPrivate()){
  propertyIsPrivate();
}

If you don't know the names of the properties, you can get a list of them through the method ReflectionClass::getProperties();

[jojojobbins]

Thanks guys, this is fantastic. The PHP community rocks!