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; } }