Call private methods and private properties from outside a class in PHP

Question

I want to access private methods and variables from outside the classes in very rare specific cases.

I\'ve seen that this is not be possible although introspection

Answer 1

I have these problems too sometimes, however I get around it through my coding standards. Private or protected functions are denoted with a prefix underscore ie

private function _myPrivateMethod()

Then i simply make the function public.

public function _myPrivateMethod()

So although the function is public the naming convention gives the notification that whilst public is is private and shouldn't really be used.