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myheritage/php-friendly
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A utility for adding non-native class friendship capabilities to PHP applications

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php-friendly
============

[](#php-friendly)

A utility for adding non-native class friendship capabilities to PHP applications

Overview
--------

[](#overview)

The friend classes [RFC](https://wiki.php.net/rfc/friend-classes) suggested that friend classes would be a php-native feature. Since it was declined we've decided to develop our own non-native solution that solves the same problem - how to make multiple classes under the same namespace "friends", and let them call each-other's protected methods.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP >= 7.3
- php-unit >= 8.3

Composer Install
----------------

[](#composer-install)

Add the dependency myheritage/php-friendly to your project if you use Composer to manage the dependencies of your project.

```
$ composer require myheritage/php-friendly

```

Usage example
-------------

[](#usage-example)

### Callee

[](#callee)

Shared / Exposed functions must be annotated with the `@friendly` annotation

```