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To: Marian Kostadinov <manchokapitancho@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Real properties in PHP
From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider)

Marian Kostadinov wrote:
>   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) = explode (' ', $value, 2);
>   }

This can be easily done with

function __get($name)
{
         $get = "get_$name";

         return $this->$get();
}

function __set($name, $value)
{
         $set = "set_$name";

         $this->$set($value);
}

in your base class (the function names are then get_fullName/set_fullName.

- Chris