Question

I am trying to get the the string “this info” inside this object lets call it $object, but data is protected, how can I access that pocket?

    object(something)#29 (1) {
  ["_data":protected]=>
  array(10) {
    ["Id"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      string(8) "this info"
    }
    ["SyncToken"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      string(1) "0"
    }
    ["MetaData"]=>
    array(1) {

Obviously $object->_data gives me an errorCannot access protected property

Answer 1

If you – or the writer of the class – want other people to have access to a protected or private property, you need to provide that via a getter method in the class itself.

So in the class:

public function getData()
{
  return $this->_data;
}

And in your program:

$object->getData();