Re: __get() accessor question (a bug maybe?)

TemuriI wrote:

class baseForm { private $_id = 10; function __get($member) {

       echo "Accessing member \"{$member}\" : <br />\n";
       return $this->$member;

} function checkID() {

       echo $this->_id."<br />\n";

} } class inputText extends baseForm { function display() {

       $this->checkID();
       echo $this->_id."<br />\n";

} } $f = new inputText(); echo $f -> display();

Ok, what you're seeing is related to the order in which PHP tries to find matching symbols. In checkID() it will not use __get() because it can access the member variable directly. When display() does it the fact that $_id is private trips it up so it falls back to trying __get(). The __get() is triggered everywhere as long as a better match cannot be found. If you really need to have both go through __get(), name the internal private vars differently and have __get() translate the external name to the internal name. -Stut