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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:29:20 +0300
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Subject: Real properties in PHP
From: manchokapitancho@gmail.com (Marian Kostadinov)

I wrote about real properies a few days ago but no one seems to be
interested in it.

I think that it would be nice to have real properties present in PHP. I
mean properties like those in C# but a little more flexible by allowing
getter and setter to have different visibility. See sample code below:

Sample code:
---------------
class person {
  public $firstName, $lastName;

  public getter fullName { // may also have ()
   return "{$this->firstName} {$this->lastName}";
  }

  public setter fullName ($value) { // may also not have ($value) but
a special var.
   list ($this->firstName, $this->lastName) =3D explode (' ', $value, 2);
  }
}

 $p =3D new person;
 $p->fullName =3D "Foo bar";
 echo $p->firstName . "\n";
 echo $p->lastName . "\n";
 echo $p->fullName . "\n";

Sample result:
----------------
Foo
bar
Foo bar