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Asked: 2026-05-23T10:11:42+00:00

Sorry, newbie question here but anyways, I’m trying to use the Google Data API

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Sorry, newbie question here but anyways,

I’m trying to use the Google Data API to work with some Google Spreadsheets and I’m trying to use var_dump to look at the structure of the objects I’m receiving from its API calls. I tried using var_dump but it’s not giving me what I expect. Most of the properties that it shows me show up as protected like this:

...

["_entryClassName:protected"]
...

and I’ve tried looking at examples of how the objects properties are being accessed and for the properties that I can actually access with the property access operator (->) I don’t even see them in the var_dump output.

So, I’m really confused and I was wondering what is the best way for me to know what are the public properties and methods of my class instance and how many of them are there?

Thanks for any help in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you want PHP’s ReflectionClass which returns information about a class definition at runtime.

    The getMethods function for example accepts parameters to determine whether it should return information about private, protected, public, static methods etc. Although as it says on php.net,

    This function is currently not
    documented; only its argument list is
    available.

    I’m not sure how full the rest of the ReflectionClass documentation is, but this makes me think you may want to get ready for a bit of hacking around to achieve exactly what you want.

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