note 77887 added to language.oop5.overloading

Just to clarify something the manual states about method overloading. "All overloading methods must be defined as public." As of PHP 5.2.2, this should be considered more of a coding convention rather than a requirement. In PHP 5.2.2, declaring a __get or __set function with a visibility other than public, will be silently ignored by the parser and will not trigger a parse error! What is more, PHP will completely ignore the visibility modifier either of these functions are declared with and will always treat them as if they were public. I am not sure if this is a bug or not so to be on the safe side, stick with always declaring them public. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 217.54.225.147 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/77887 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77887/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77887/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77887/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77887/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77887/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77887/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77887 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/77887 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php