Re: how do you create a private property as an array in a class

From: Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:27:06 +0000
Subject: Re: how do you create a private property as an array in a class
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Hi, On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 11:23 -0700, Matthew Hernandez wrote: > This is my first extension I'm working on. I'm trying to make a class > available to the user space with 1 private property that is an array. The first question is: Why? - Why add the overhead of creating such an array if it is private? In most cases it is better to extend the zend_object in C (struct my_object { zend_object inner; type some_data;}) to hold private data. If you want to show it in var_dump or a debugger you could implement a debug_info hook. johannes

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