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Use reflection in PHP to get a list of constants

PHP lacks a good way of creating enumerations. The best practice is to create constants and use those as possible values. The downside is that you normaly write them hard coded multiple times. For example you've got the following status options: class Person { const STATUS_PENDING = "pending" const STATUS_ACTIVE

Testing private and protected methods with PHPUnit

It's easy to test public methods with PHPUnit. But what if you want to test protected or private methods? To test those you can use reflection to create a reflection method and invoke this method like the following: $method = new ReflectionMethod('FancyThing', 'doSomethingFancy'); $method->setAccessible(true); $fancyThing = new FancyThing(); $method->