note 83427 rejected from language.oop5.visibility by bjori

Note Submitter: ted-talks at codeoflife dot ca ---- 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.