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README
Better Reflection
Better Reflection is a reflection API that aims to improve and provide more features than PHP's built-in reflection API.
Why is it better?
- You can reflect on classes that are not already loaded, without loading them
- Ability to reflect on classes directly from a string of PHP code
- Better Reflection analyses the DocBlocks (using phpdocumentor/type-resolver)
- Reflecting directly on closures
- Ability to extract AST from methods and functions
- Ability to return AST representation of a class or function
- Fetch return type declaration and parameter type declarations in PHP 7 code
- Change or remove PHP 7 parameter type and return type declarations from methods and functions
- Change the body of a function or method to do something different
- Moar stuff coming soon!
Be sure to read more in the [feature documentation](docs/features.md).
Installation
Require using composer:
$ composer require roave/better-reflection
Usage
<?php
use Roave\BetterReflection\BetterReflection;
$classInfo = (new BetterReflection())
->classReflector()
->reflect(\Foo\Bar\MyClass::class);
Documentation
- [Compatibility with core Reflection API](docs/compatibility.md)
- [Basic usage instructions](docs/usage.md)
- [Using types](docs/types.md)
- [The features](docs/features.md)
- Test suite
- [AST extraction](docs/ast-extraction.md)
- [Reflection modification](docs/reflection-modification.md)
Upgrading
Please refer to the [Upgrade Documentation](UPGRADE.md) documentation to see what is required to upgrade your installed
BetterReflection version.
Limitations
- PHP cannot autoload functions, therefore we cannot statically reflect functions
License
This package is released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).
Contributing
If you wish to contribute to the project, please read the [CONTRIBUTING notes](CONTRIBUTING.md).
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Better Reflection README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.