getProperties() does not return private properties from ancestor classes. * * @author muratyaman@gmail.com * @see http://php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.getproperties.php * * @param ReflectionClass $ref * * @return ReflectionProperty[] */ public static function getProperties(ReflectionClass $ref) { $props = $ref->getProperties(); $propsArr = array(); foreach ($props as $prop) { $propertyName = $prop->getName(); $propsArr[$propertyName] = $prop; } if ($parentClass = $ref->getParentClass()) { $parentPropsArr = self::getProperties($parentClass); foreach ($propsArr as $key => $property) { $parentPropsArr[$key] = $property; } return $parentPropsArr; } return $propsArr; } /** * Retrieves property by name from object and all its ancestors. * * @param object|string $object * @param string $name * * @throws PropertyException * @throws ReflectionException * * @return ReflectionProperty */ public static function getProperty($object, $name) { $reflection = is_object($object) ? new ReflectionObject($object) : new ReflectionClass($object); if ($reflection->hasProperty($name)) { return $reflection->getProperty($name); } if ($parentClass = $reflection->getParentClass()) { return self::getProperty($parentClass->getName(), $name); } throw new PropertyException( sprintf( 'The class "%s" doesn\'t have a property with the given name: "%s".', is_object($object) ? get_class($object) : $object, $name ) ); } }