PHP equivalent of friend or internal

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PHP doesn’t support any friend-like declarations. It’s possible to simulate this using the PHP5 __get and __set methods and inspecting a backtrace for only the allowed friend classes, although the code to do it is kind of clumsy.

There’s some sample code and discussion on the topic on PHP’s site:

class HasFriends
{
    private $__friends = array('MyFriend', 'OtherFriend');

    public function __get($key)
    {
        $trace = debug_backtrace();
        if(isset($trace[1]['class']) && in_array($trace[1]['class'], $this->__friends)) {
            return $this->$key;
        }

        // normal __get() code here

        trigger_error('Cannot access private property ' . __CLASS__ . '::$' . $key, E_USER_ERROR);
    }

    public function __set($key, $value)
    {
        $trace = debug_backtrace();
        if(isset($trace[1]['class']) && in_array($trace[1]['class'], $this->__friends)) {
            return $this->$key = $value;
        }

        // normal __set() code here

        trigger_error('Cannot access private property ' . __CLASS__ . '::$' . $key, E_USER_ERROR);
    }
}

(Code proved by tsteiner at nerdclub dot net on bugs.php.net)

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