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Mark Baker, serial conference speaker and creator of the PhpSpreadsheet package shares some thoughts on how to create private classes using anonymous classes.

I’ve written before about the benefits of using PHP’s Anonymous Classes for test doubles; but Anonymous Classes also have potential usecases within production code as well. In this article I’m going to describe one such usecase that can be particularly useful within libraries, and that is replicating the access of Package Private (in Java), or Protected Internal Classes (as per C#).

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Mark Baker tried creating an Anonymous Class Factory.

I was intrigued by a request to find a way of dynamically applying Traits to a class at run-time. With time on my hands as I was sitting in the airport, I considered the problem; and my first thought was to build an Anonymous class, extending the requested class (so that it would still contain all the base properties and functionality, and could be type-hinted, but also applying the requested Trait or set of Traits.

https://markbakeruk.net/2016/05/03/in-search-of-an-anonymous-class-factory/

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