How to programmatically find public properties of a class from inside one of it's methods

Question

I\'ve got a class Foo with public and protected properties. Foo needs to have a non-static method, getPublicVars() that returns a list of

Answer 1

Does not work with php version >=7
As such, I can't really recommend solution any longer.
Use reflection instead

To get the public properties from within the class

$publicProperties = call_user_func('get_object_vars', $this);

the "trick" is that get_object_vars is being called from the scope of call_user_func and not the scope of the object

no need for reflection, stand-alone functions, closures, etc