Re: Using setters/getters with array of objects

Hi, Thanks. I'll probably do the addEmail method. I was hoping to do as with the other "non-array" properties. On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) <andy-lists@networkmail.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > > $u->emails[] = $e; > > > I would hazard a guess because $u->emails isn't a concrete object (whereas > $u->_emails is, but is private.) It's sort of a virtual reference - PHP has > no way of knowing that $u->emails actually translates into _emails which is > an array, if you see what I mean (it's difficult to explain.) > > > But that does not work. I've managed to achieve similar result using a > different setter in User > > public function __set($name, $value) > { > $property = '_' . $name; > > switch($name) > { > case 'emails': > array_push($this->$property, $value); > break; > > default: > $this->$property = $value; > } > } > > > You could also have done: > > if (is_array($this->$property)) > { > array_push($this->$property, $value); > } > else > { > $this->$property = $value; > } > > which would handle any array property, not just the e-mails property. > > If this was me, I would probably create a concrete method, called > "addEmail" which would do $this->_emails[] = $value, but allow a programmer > to call $user->emails to get the e-mails (not set.) > >