Re: magic getter

On 07/19/2012 12:22 PM, Sebastian wrote:

Hi all, is this a bug, or a feature? class Foo { private $data; public function __get($name) { return $this->data[$name]; } } $foo = new Foo(); $foo->color = 'red'; echo $foo->color; I would expect an error, or a least a notice, but it prints out "red" ...

Their is nothing magical about this. When you do this: $foo = new Foo(); $foo->color = 'red'; you create a variable within the $foo instance variable called color with a value of red. Then, later on when you do this echo $foo->color; you are then simply echo'ing the variable/value you created. with this example, you are never using the __get() magic function to retrieve the value of color. -- Jim Lucas http://www.cmsws.com/ http://www.cmsws.com/examples/ http://www.bendsource.com/