Req #52297 [Opn->Wfx]: visibility identifier namespace-protected

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52297&edit=1 ID: 52297 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported by: giorgio dot liscio at email dot it Summary: visibility identifier namespace-protected -Status: Open +Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Class/Object related Operating System: all PHP Version: 5.3.2 New Comment: PHP namespaces really aren't meant to be anything more than a way of avoiding name collisions and allowing aliasing -- visibility modifiers are somewhat beyond the scope of what they're trying to achieve. If you really want to push this, I'd suggest raising this on the Internals mailing list (preferably with a prototype patch) with a view to putting this through the RFC process instead, given it would be a moderately significant language change. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-09 02:56:36] giorgio dot liscio at email dot it Description: ------------ hi, in php is missing a visibility identifier to protect methods and properties inside the namespace example: namespace Oracle; // abstraction layer for Oracle class Connection { // ociresource should be visible only in the namespace // in php 5.3 the property is public to world namespace-protected $ociresource; public function __construct() { $this->ociresource = oci_connect(); } public function query($sql) { return new Query($this, $sql); } } class Query { public function __construct(Connection $con, $sql) { $x = oci_parse($con->ociresource, $sql); // $ociresource is accessible only in this namespace oci_execute($x); } } ---- suggested visibility identifier: namespace-private (if namespace is \Test\Abc\ the method/property is only accessible within \Test\Abc\) namespace-protected (if namespace is \Test\Abc\ the method/property can be accessible within \Test\Abc\ and, for example \Test\Abc\Foo\ ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52297&edit=1