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marcin-orlowski/lockpick
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Helps accessing protected/private members/consts of foreign objects.

1.5.0(3mo ago)03.8k↑200%2MITPHPPHP ^8.1CI passing

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Lockpick
========

[](#lockpick)

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Collection of PHP helper methods allowing easy access to protected or private properties and constants of objects or classes as well as allowing to call such non-public methods. This library is mostly useful while creating unit tests for your code, therefore it is recommended to make it `--dev` only dependency.

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require --dev marcin-orlowski/lockpick
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

As all methods come as set of **static** methods, so you just need to add related `use` to your code class and all methods should be simply available via static reference `Lockpick::...`:

```
use Lockpick\Lockpick;
use PHPUnit\Framework\Assert;

$obj = new Stronghold();
$actual = Lockpick::call($obj, 'openSessame', [ 'abracadabra' ]);
Assert::assertEquals($expected, $actual);
...
```

Available methods
-----------------

[](#available-methods)

Notes:

- The `$clsOrObj` parameter can be either `object` or class name (`string`)
- The `Lockpick::call()` argument `$args` now accepts single parameters w/o `array` wrapping (so `call(..., $arg1)` is now valid and equivalent to `call(..., [ $arg1 ])`) as it will be automatically wrapped under the hood.
- If you want to actually pass `array` as single argument to called function you must wrap it into another array, like this: `call(..., [[ $arg1, $arg2 ]])`. Default is empty array which means no arguments will be passed to the called method.

MethodDescriptioncall($clsOrObj, string $methodName, mixed $args): mixedCalls object/class protected/private methodgetProperty($clsOrObj, string $name): mixedReturns value of protected/private propertysetProperty($clsOrObj, string $name, mixed $value): mixedSets value of protected/private propertygetConstant($clsOrObj, string $name): mixedReturns value of protected/private constantgetMethodVisibility($clsOrObj, string $name): VisibilityReturns visibility of class methodgetPropertyVisibility($clsOrObj, string $name): VisibilityReturns visibility of class propertygetConstantVisibility($clsOrObj, string $name): VisibilityReturns visibility of class constant---

License
-------

[](#license)

- Written and copyrighted ©2014-2026 by Marcin Orlowski
- Open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

###  Health Score

47

—

FairBetter than 93% of packages

Maintenance86

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

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 ~169 days

Recently: every ~256 days

Total

8

Last Release

97d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP ^8.0||^8.1

1.3.0PHP ^8.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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