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best-served-cold/reflection
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Reflection - Simple utility to reflect objects and classes to access properties and methods.

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Reflection
==========

[](#reflection)

A simple way of interrogating private methods and properties via overloading.

Install
-------

[](#install)

```
composer require best-served-cold/reflection
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Take this class:

```
class ExampleClass
{
    protected $protectedProperty = 1;
    protected static $protectedStaticProperty = 2;
    private $privateProperty = 3;
    private static $privateStaticProperty = 4;

    protected function protectedMethod($number)
    {
        return $number + 1;
    }

    private function privateMethod($number)
    {
        return $number + 2;
    }

    protected static function protectedStaticMethod($number)
    {
        return $number + 3;
    }

    private static function privateStaticMethod($number)
    {
        return $number + 4;
    }
}
```

### Usage as a class

[](#usage-as-a-class)

```
$reflectionClass = new ReflectionClass(ExampleClass::class);

echo $reflectionClass->protectedStaticProperty . PHP_EOL;
echo $reflectionClass->privateStaticProperty . PHP_EOL;
echo $reflectionClass->protectedStaticMethod(2) . PHP_EOL;
echo $reflectionClass->privateStaticMethod(4) . PHP_EOL;
```

Returns:

```
2
4
5
8
```

### Usage as an object

[](#usage-as-an-object)

```
$reflectionObject = new ReflectionObject(new Exampleclass);

echo $reflectionObject->protectedProperty . PHP_EOL;
echo $reflectionObject->privateProperty . PHP_EOL;
echo $reflectionObject->protectedMethod(2) . PHP_EOL;
echo $reflectionObject->privateMethod(4) . PHP_EOL;
```

Returns:

```
1
3
3
6
```

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

4

Last Release

3394d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

reflectionBest Served ColdEasy reflectionAuto reflection

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