Question

I used to get all public vars from a class inside a class with a Closure like this:

Class myClass
{
  public $foo;
  private $bar;

  private function GetFields()
  {
    $lambda = function( $obj ) { return get_object_vars( $obj ); };
    return $lambda( $this );
  }

  public function SomeFunction()
  {
    $fields = $this->GetFields();
  }
}

This worked perfect, and gave me all public vars while inside a class.

Now, I upgraded my server to PHP 5.4 and I get all privates and protected vars to.
Is that a new ‘Feature’ or is it a Bug?

Answer 1

To answer my own question, its a unwanted side effect of moving closures into the scope of the class.

Have a look at: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/closures/object-extension

In the end I thinks its a bug or at least a unwanted ‘Feature’.

I’ll must think another strategy to find all public properties of a class, while inside a class.

update:

this is what I came up with:

Class myClass
{
  public  $foo;
  private $bar;

  private function GetFields()
  {
    $fields = [];
    $ref = (new ReflectionObject($this))->getProperties(ReflectionProperty::IS_PUBLIC);
    foreach ( $ref as $value )
      $fields[$value->name] = $this->{$value->name};

    return $fields;
  }

  public function SomeFunction()
  {
    $fields = $this->GetFields();
  }
}