Re: Re: __get() not reentrant?

Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:

Jochem Maas wrote:

Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:

Maybe I'm using "reentrant" incorrectly, but here is what I mean... class Test { function __get($nm) {

     if ($nm == 'x')
        return $this->func();
     elseif ($nm == 'y')
        return 'y';
     elseif ($nm == 'xx')
        return 'x';

} function func() {

     return $this->xx;

} } $t = new Test(); print $t->y . "\n"; print $t->xx . "\n"; print $t->x . "\n"; print $t->func() . "\n"; I would expect the following code to output: y x x x But instead, it outputs: y x x Is this a bug? This limitation is not documented (maybe it should be?).

its not a bug, I believe its documented somewhere how this works. bottom line __get() does not work from 'inside' the class/object, so do something like instead:

     function func()   {
       return $this->__get('xx');
     }

which may not please the soul, but does work ;-)

Hehe, my soul is hard to please...=P Actually, __get() does work from inside the class. In the sample code I posted, func() does indeed return 'x' when called from main. It does not work when called from within a call to __get(). In other words, $this->attribute does not work if __get() appears anywhere in the call stack. Its just a small annoyance.

I think it would be more annoying if __get() would be recursively called to infinity.