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rikudou/friend-classes
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Allows other classes to access your class private methods/properties

v2.0.0(4y ago)423MITPHPPHP ^8.0

Since Mar 26Pushed 4y agoCompare

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Friend classes in PHP
=====================

[](#friend-classes-in-php)

Inspired by the concept of friend classes in C++ where you can specify classes that have access to otherwise unaccessible properties.

Example from C++ world:

```
class ClassWithPrivateProperty {
private:
    int myPrivateProperty = 0;

    friend class MyOtherClass; // here we declare MyOtherClass as a friend
}

class MyOtherClass {
public:
    void someMethod() {
        ClassWithPrivateProperty privateObject;
        auto result = privateObject.myPrivateProperty; // allowed because MyOtherClass is declared as a friend of ClassWithPrivateProperty
    }
}
```

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

[](#installation)

`composer require rikudou/friend-classes`

That's it, the package is now automatically enabled and works out of the box.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

After installing this package you can use similar concept in PHP:

```