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piotrpress/accessor
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This library provides an access to protected/private, also static, methods/properties of an object/class.

v1.0.0(5y ago)043GPL-3.0PHPPHP >=7.4

Since Jan 24Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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Accessor
========

[](#accessor)

This library provides an access to protected/private, also static, methods/properties of an object/class.

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require piotrpress/accessor
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Example class

[](#example-class)

```
class Example {
    private $privateProperty = 'privateProperty';
    protected $protectedProperty = 'protectedProperty';
    static private $staticPrivateProperty = 'staticPrivateProperty';
    static protected $staticProtectedProperty = 'staticProtectedProperty';

    private function privateMethod( $arg1, $arg2 ) { echo $arg1 . $arg2; }
    protected function protectedMethod( $arg1, $arg2 ) { echo $arg1 . $arg2; }
    static private function staticPrivateMethod( $arg1, $arg2 ) { echo $arg1 . $arg2; }
    static protected function staticProtectedMethod( $arg1, $arg2 ) { echo $arg1 . $arg2; }
}
```

### Including library

[](#including-library)

```
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use PiotrPress\Accessor;
```

### Calling methods

[](#calling-methods)

```
$accessor = new Accessor( new Example() );

$accessor->privateMethod( 'arg1', 'arg2' );
$accessor->protectedMethod( 'arg1', 'arg2' );
```

### Calling static methods

[](#calling-static-methods)

```
$accessor = new Accessor( 'Example' );

$accessor->staticPrivateMethod( 'arg1', 'arg2' );
$accessor->staticProtectedMethod( 'arg1', 'arg2' );
```

### Getting properties

[](#getting-properties)

```
$accessor = new Accessor( new Example() );

echo $accessor->privateProperty;
echo $accessor->protectedProperty;
```

### Getting static properties

[](#getting-static-properties)

```
$accessor = new Accessor( 'Example' );

echo $accessor->staticPrivateProperty;
echo $accessor->staticProtectedProperty;
```

### Setting properties

[](#setting-properties)

```
$accessor = new Accessor( new Example() );

$accessor->privateProperty = 'newPrivateProperty';
$accessor->protectedProperty = 'newProtectedProperty';
```

### Setting static properties

[](#setting-static-properties)

```
$accessor = new Accessor( 'Example' );

$accessor->staticPrivateProperty = 'newStaticPrivateProperty';
$accessor->staticProtectedProperty = 'newStaticProtectedProperty';
```

License
-------

[](#license)

GPL3.0

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1939d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10326736?v=4)[Piotr Niewiadomski](/maintainers/PiotrPress)[@PiotrPress](https://github.com/PiotrPress)

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Top Contributors

[![PiotrPress](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10326736?v=4)](https://github.com/PiotrPress "PiotrPress (1 commits)")

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