Would it be possible to set the $baseDir property of the FileLoader class to protected instead of private? (see FileLoader.php@L23)

I'm trying to implement a custom file loader that allows prepending an alias to the root directory when including (e.g. {include '~partials/image.latte'} would render /path/to/views/dir/partials/image.latte).

The only change needed is in the getReferredName method, so I'd like to extend the base class and avoid re-implementing the whole thing. However, from my child class, I can't access the base dir property since it's private. See code below.

Let me know if there's a simpler method to accomplish this or any good reason to keep it as private.

Ideally, this would be part of the framework, but I'm okay with creating a custom loader for that and understand it might not make sense for every app.

Thanks.

BTW. If relevant, I'm not using Nette framework, this is on top of a third-party CMS.

This is what the custom loader would look like:

<?php namespace App; use Latte\Loaders\FileLoader; /**  * Custom template file loader.  *  * Modified to allow including files from basedir directly by prepending ~ or /  * Example:  * /partials/image.latte >> /path/to/view/dir/partials/image.latte  * ~partials/image.latte >> /path/to/view/dir/partials/image.latte  */ class CustomFileLoader extends FileLoader { /**  * Aliases that refer to the base dir when prepended to a filename  *  * @var array  */ static protected $baseDirAliases = [ '/', '~',	]; /**  * Returns referred template name.  *  * Check for prepended alias to baseDir and return path from there if found  * Otherwise, refer to default implementation  *  */ public function getReferredName($file, $referringFile): string	{ if ( $this->baseDir && in_array(substr($file, 0, 1), static::$baseDirAliases)	) { return $this->normalizePath(substr($file, 1));	} return parent::getReferredName($file, $referringFile);	} }