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hakito/publisher
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Proxy for accessing protected/private class members.

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PhpPublisher
============

[](#phppublisher)

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Simple proxy for accessing protected/private class members.

It's intention is to give unit tests access to private members without reinventing the wheel.

This helper uses closures to access private members of a class instead of reflection.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require hakito/publisher
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Guess you have a class with private members:

```
class Target
{
    private $foo = 'secret';
    private function bar($arg) { return $arg . 'Bar'; }

    private static $sFoo = 'staticSecret';
}
```

Create the proxy to access these members:

```
$target = new Target();
$published = new hakito\Publisher\Published($target);

// Get private property
$property = $published->foo;
// $property = 'secret';

// Set private property
$published->foo = 'outsider';
// $target->foo = 'outsider';

// call private method
$name = $published->bar('Saloon');
// $name = 'SaloonBar';

// Optional you can provide a base class in the constructor
class Derived extends Target {
    private $foo = 'derived';
}

$derived = new Derived();
$published = new hakito\Publisher\Published($derived, Target::class);
$property = $published->foo; // Gets property from Target
// $property = 'secret';
```

### Accessing static members

[](#accessing-static-members)

If you want to access static fields or methods you have to use the class StaticPublished

```
$published = new StaticPublished(Target::class);

$property = $published->sFoo;
// $property = 'staticSecret'
```

Setting fields and calling methods works the same as for instances.

Limitations
-----------

[](#limitations)

### The published method call cannot set a reference argument.

[](#the-published-method-call-cannot-set-a-reference-argument)

```
class Target
{
    private function methodWithReferenceArgument(&$arg) { $arg = 'hi'; }
}

$target = new Target();
$published = new hakito\Publisher\Published($target);
$val = 'initial';
$published->methodWithReferenceArgument($val);
// $val is still 'initial'
```

### The return value from method call cannot be a reference

[](#the-return-value-from-method-call-cannot-be-a-reference)

```
class Target
{
    private $_member = [];
    private function &methodWithReferenceReturnValue($arg) { return $this->_member; }
}

$target = new Target();
$published = new hakito\Publisher\Published($target);
$val = 'initial';
$published->methodWithReferenceReturnValue($val)['new'] = 'value';
// Target::_member is still []
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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 ~55 days

Total

3

Last Release

2158d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/320853?v=4)[Gerd Katzenbeisser](/maintainers/hakito)[@hakito](https://github.com/hakito)

---

Top Contributors

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