Question

Is there a way to know the type (sorry if this is not the correct name) of a method inside a object? Imagine you have an object with 5 methods, 3 of them being public and the remaining protected / private, how can you know if a method is public?

Cheers!

Answer 1

You can use reflection for getting info about classes and objects.
Look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.reflection.php

$reflection = new ReflectionClass('TestClass');
$aMethods = $reflection->getMethods(); 
var_dump($aMethods[0]->isPublic());