patchwork

patchwork

Method redefinition (monkey-patching) functionality for PHP.

Patchwork implements the redefinition (monkey-patching) of functions and methods in PHP. This includes both user-defined and internal callables, which can be functions, class methods, or instance methods. In addition, many function-like constructs, such as exit or include, are supported in an analogous way.

Internally, Patchwork uses a stream wrapper on file://. In the case of user-defined functions and methods, it is used to inject a simple interceptor snippet to the beginning of every such callable. For the remaining types of callables, various other strategies are applied.