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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:50:30 +0200
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Subject: Re: Real properties in PHP
From: r.korving@xit.nl ("Ron Korving")

I very much like your idea and syntax. I come from a Delphi background (when
it comes to properties) and I must say I like your solution. It's easy and
effective. Yes, it can be done with __set() and __get(), but it sure is
uglier when you have a wide and constant range of properties.

+1 (with 0 karma anyway).

Ron


"Marian Kostadinov" <manchokapitancho@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:bec76cf9050825032978cd308d@mail.gmail.com...
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) = explode (' ', $value, 2);
  }
}

 $p = new person;
 $p->fullName = "Foo bar";
 echo $p->firstName . "\n";
 echo $p->lastName . "\n";
 echo $p->fullName . "\n";

Sample result:
----------------
Foo
bar
Foo bar