Re: Best practices for set/get methods

From:	Rasmus Lerdorf	Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:22:21 +0000
Subject:	Re: Best practices for set/get methods
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Tim Boring wrote:

Does anyone have suggestions/ideas about best practices for writing set/get methods in PHP5? There are two basic ways I've seen this done, which I've provided examples of below. Method #2 is obviously the easier way, but that doesn't mean it may be the best way. I'm curious to read people's responses. Thanks, Tim #1: set/get method for each member attribute example: private $foo; private $bar; public getFoo() {
        return $this->foo;
} public setFoo($val) {
        $this->foo = $val;
} public getBar() {
        return $this->bar;
} public setBar($val) {
        $this->bar = $val;
} #2: generalized set/get methods example: private $foo; private $bar; public getVar($var) {
        return $this->$var;
} public setVar($var, $val) {
        set $this->$var = $val;
} 

Why not use __set()? http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php -Rasmus