note 83427 added to language.oop5.visibility

I recently began updating my code to PHP 5 standands by adding the visibility prefaces: public, protected, private. I then discovered that serialized objects from the database weren't updated as I thought they would be. Before updating: [code] object(Foo) { ["bar"]=> string(0) "banana" } [/code] After adding visibility and viewing an unserialized Foo object: [code] object(Foo) { ["bar:protected"]=> string(0) "" ["bar"]=> string(6) "banana" } [/code] During unserlialization, it seems to have created two different "bar" variables.. one public and one protected. Any idea why PHP would be doing this? It completely messes up my framework. Thanks. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 154.5.117.214 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.visibility.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/83427 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83427/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83427/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83427/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83427/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83427/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83427/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83427 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/83427 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php