PHP - calling a private method for testing, what's the correct design?

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PhpUnit private method testing

In my unit tests I need to call a private method to set my fixtures to a given state. On the other hand, I'd rather not make this method public. How do I go about this?

Answer 1

Why not make those functions protected and create a derived class for testing purposes? That class can have public functions for testing that can initialize the various variables etc.