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What is Reflection?

Reflection in PHP is a powerful tool that allows a program to examine and modify its own structure and behavior at runtime. With reflection, you can:

1. Get information about classes, methods, properties, and constants:

  • You can find out which methods and properties a class has, what data types they use,
  • whether methods are static or instance,
  • and whether properties are public, protected, or private.
  • 2. Create instances of classes, call methods, and access properties:

  • You can use reflection to dynamically create objects,
  • call methods with different arguments,
  • and get property values, even if they are private.
  • 3. Change the behavior of the program:

  • You can use reflection to change the values of constants,
  • override methods,
  • and even add new methods to classes.