Posted by Good Man on 11/06/07 19:37

Hi there

I'm learnin' myself some OO programming (finally), and was wondering if
someone could briefly tell me why when setting up my object...

$p = new Person();

.... that the following both print "Bob" to the screen:

print $p->name;
print $p->Name;


The method in the class is getName, so why would "name" (lowercase) work
here? All my experience in PHP says that uppercase/lowercase is vitally
important!

Here's the class:


class Person {

function __get($property) {
$method = "get{$property}";
if(method_exists($this,$method)) {
return $this->$method();
}
}

function getName() {
return "Bob";
}

function getAge() {
return 44;
}

}

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