Note: If you want to invoke protected or private methods, you'll first have to make them accessible using the setAccessible() method (see http://php.net/reflectionmethod.setaccessible ).
(PHP 5, PHP 7)
ReflectionMethod::invoke — Invoke
Invokes a reflected method.
objectThe object to invoke the method on. For static methods, pass null to this parameter.
parameterZero or more parameters to be passed to the method. It accepts a variable number of parameters which are passed to the method.
Returns the method result.
A ReflectionException if the object
parameter does not contain an instance of the class that this method was declared in.
A ReflectionException if the method invocation failed.
Example #1 ReflectionMethod::invoke() example
<?php
class HelloWorld {
public function sayHelloTo($name) {
return 'Hello ' . $name;
}
}
$reflectionMethod = new ReflectionMethod('HelloWorld', 'sayHelloTo');
echo $reflectionMethod->invoke(new HelloWorld(), 'Mike');
?>
The above example will output:
Hello Mike
Note:
If the function has arguments that need to be references, then they must be references in the passed argument list.
Note: If you want to invoke protected or private methods, you'll first have to make them accessible using the setAccessible() method (see http://php.net/reflectionmethod.setaccessible ).
This method can be used to call a overwritten public method of a parent class on an child instance
The following code will output "A":
<?php
class A
{
public function foo()
{
return __CLASS__;
}
}
class B extends A
{
public function foo()
{
return __CLASS__;
}
}
$b = new B();
$reflection = new ReflectionObject($b);
$parentReflection = $reflection->getParentClass();
$parentFooReflection = $parentReflection->getMethod('foo');
$data = $parentFooReflection->invoke($b);
echo $data;
?>
Seems that Reflection doesn`t resolve late static bindings - var_dump will show "string 'a' (length=1)".
<?php
class ParentClass { protected static $a = 'a'; static public function init() { return static::$a; } }
class ChildClass extends ParentClass { protected static $a = 'b'; }
$r = new ReflectionClass('ChildClass');
var_dump($r->getMethod('init')->invoke(null));
?>