Re: PHP5 and the DOM model

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:05:11AM +0200, Michael Preminger wrote: > Hello! > > Seems that PHP gets more and more object oriented, which is good. > > I am now running a course in PHP, using PHP 5, where we are going to > use the *DOM* interface. I am trying to teach them good OO practices, > meaning that we insistently hide properties and expose them as get or > set methods. Get/set methods are more often than not breaking encapsulation and should be avoided (unless purposefully designing Model object or something similar.) > > Looking at the PHPs *DOM* implementation, I see that many of the > properties are exposed directly, without even offering get methods. Can you please provide an example of where this is happening? > > 1. Is there something I am misunderstanding orotherwise missing? (I > havenot used *DOM* in PHP before). > > 2.This poses a pedagogical problem for me as a teacher. How do I > explain this contradiction to my students? Explain that the DOM API and PHP's binding to the DOM API are 2 different things with 2 different goals. > > Thanks > > Michael > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >