Re: OOP and Future of PHP

> The only thing that I feel lack of in PHP is the real Object Oriented > stuff, such as information hiding in the object in classes i.e. private and > public variables, methods/functions. > > This in a sene make it really difficult for developer to build an API for > other developers that is secure. I myself have this problem. Is there any > reasons why PHP was designed like this from the beginning? Is this issue > going to be addresses somehow in the future? Anyone has any idea? It was designed like this because PHP was designed as a procedural language and not an object oriented one. > If anyone has any idea, or tricks to hide information in a variables or > method in a class, or in other words, make a variable or method a private, > I would really like to know. Thanks for any comments. PHP also doesn't have introspection, so there isn't a good way for people to see what is in your API so a bit of obscurity should hide things for you. -Rasmus