Re: Re: OOP::problem?

Mika Tuupola wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Alan Knowles wrote:

PHP is more like C# than Java - in theory you should use the overload extension if you want to implement setter/getters to implement future refactoring/ BC API stuff. (actually the plan is for DB_DataObjects to do this one day)

Overload extension is not quite usable at the moment: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22004 that is a bug on the call overloading, eg unknown methods, rather than getters/setters.

However it's not a totally clean line (sometimes setters/getters do still make sense.)

I think it better to stick in on way only. Whether to always access properties directly or to always provide an accessor method. Personally I prefer the acccessor methods, slower or not. If you sometimes access properties directly and sometimes by accesssor methods the code will get quite confusing for other developers. As ever = each to there own :) - I just dont like having to write documentaiton for 2 methods + 1 variable rather than just 1 variable , unless it's really necessary.. :)

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