Re: Overloading Limitation- Can Someone Confirm?

Jochem Maas wrote:

Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:

Jochem Maas wrote:

I think its a misunderstanding on the one side and a limitation on the other, you can't use overloading directly on items of an overloaded array e.g:

    echo $tc->arr['a']

this is triggers a call to __get() with the $key parameter set to something like (I'm guessing) "arr['a']"

No, I'm pretty sure (too lazy and tired right now to test...) that if

you guess wrong :-) .. I couldn't resist testing it: php -r ' class T { private $var = array(); function __set($k, $v) { $this->var[$k] = $v; }

function __get($k)     { var_dump($k); }

} $t = new T; $t->arr = array(); $t->arr["a"] = 1; echo "OUTPUT: \n"; var_dump($t->arr); var_dump($t->arr["a"]); var_dump($t); '

That's weird, because I did get around to testing it before I saw your mail, and in my test it works as *I* expect (PHP 5.1.2)... My comments earlier were based on the fact that it would not be good to limit what can be put in an object through __get and __set effectively to scalar variables, and I would expect the engine developers to realise that. I think they have (unless I've done something stupid in my test code...): Code: <?php class T {

    private $array = array();

    public function __get( $key ) {
        return $this->array[$key];
    }

    public function __set( $key, $value ) {
        $this->array[$key] = $value;
    }

} $t = new T; $t->insideArray = array(); $t->insideArray['test'] = 'testing!'; var_dump( $t ); ?> Output: object(T)#1 (1) { ["array:private"]=> array(1) {

    ["insideArray"]=>
    array(1) {
      ["test"]=>
      string(8) "testing!"
    }

} } -- Jasper Bryant-Greene General Manager Album Limited http://www.album.co.nz/ 0800 4 ALBUM jasper@album.co.nz 021 708 334