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Subject: Weird behaviour of private attribute + overloaded method
From: tony2001@phpclub.net (Antony Dovgal)

Hi all!

What do you expect from this code?

<?php

class Foo{ 
	private $id = false;
	public function getId () { 
		return $this->id;
	} 
	public function setId ($id) { 
		return $this->id = $id;
	} 
	
} 

class Bar extends Foo { 
	public function setId ($id) { 
		return $this->id = $id;
	} 
} 

$b = new Bar; 
$b->setId(123);
var_dump($b->getId());

?>

It outputs 'bool(false)', while I expect it to print 'int(123)'.

Changing private $id to public or protected solves the problem.
Adding getId() method to the Bar solves it too, but this is obviously
rather silly solution.

Am I missing something and this is really expected behaviour ?

---
WBR,
Antony Dovgal aka tony2001
tony2001@phpclub.net || antony@dovgal.com