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hollodotme/inclomplete-class-accessor
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Class to access ALL properties of a \_\_PHP\_Incomplete\_Class

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IncompleteClassAccessor
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[](#incompleteclassaccessor)

Class to access ALL properties of a \_\_PHP\_Incomplete\_Class

**PLEASE NOTE:** This is a proof of concept and not ment to be used in production software.

Use case
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[](#use-case)

- You have an object serialized and stored to e.g. the database.
- Time is passing by and the underlying class has been modified, moved or deleted.
- You read the serealized object from your storage and receive a `__PHP_Incomplete_Class` object.
- You want to read the object's properties, even those which are private.

PHP build-in
------------

[](#php-build-in)

- PHP does not provide a convenient way to read private properties from such an object. `ReflectionClass` does not publish any of the properties.
- The available [`unserialize_callback_func`](http://php.net/manual/de/var.configuration.php#unserialize-callback-func)only lets you load an apropriate class by name (which may not exist anymore).

What IncompleteClassAccessor does
---------------------------------

[](#what-incompleteclassaccessor-does)

- Reads the name of the original class from the `__PHP_Incomplete_Class` object.
- It serializes the `__PHP_Incomplete_Class` object.
- It modifies the resulting serialized string to convert the `__PHP_Incomplete_Class` object to a `stdClass` object.
- It unserializes the modified string and reads all (now accessable) object properties into a key-value array.
- If a property value itself is a `__PHP_Incomplete_Class` object, it creates an instance of `IncompleteClassAccessor` for this value. (So it is recursive.)

Example usage
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[](#example-usage)

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