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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:41:12 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] __get() and __set() in PHP 5
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)
References: <200307122003.38874.hudzilla@php.net>

Yes, you are right. They only work if the variable is not defined.

Andi

At 08:03 PM 12/7/2003 +0100, Paul Hudson wrote:
>All,
>
>I've been poking around with these two functions while testing the build from
>CVS, and am not sure how they're supposed to work.  From what I can gather,
>they are only called when changing a variable that wasn't in the class
>definition.  I say that because I took the example script from
>http://uk.php.net/zend-engine-2.php and stripped it down to this:
>
><?php
>class Setter {
>         public $n;
>         public $z;
>
>         function __get($nm) {
>                 print "Getting [$nm]\n";
>         }
>
>         function __set($nm, $val) {
>                 print "Setting [$nm] to $val\n";
>         }
>}
>
>$foo = new Setter();
>$foo->n = 1;
>$foo->z++;
>$foo->z++;
>?>
>
>That script outputs nothing, despite reading and writing to z twice, and
>writing to n once.  If you comment out the "public $n;" and "public $z;"
>lines, you get the following output:
>
>Setting [n] to 1
>Getting [z]
>Setting [z] to 1
>Getting [z]
>Setting [z] to 1
>
>... which is what I was expecting.
>
>Are __get() and __set(), then, only supposed to work with non-declared
>variables, or am I doing something wrong?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>--Paul
>
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