Posted by Greg Donald on 10/07/33 11:13

On 4/14/05, Tim Boring <tboring@adw1.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions/ideas about best practices for writing
> set/get methods in PHP5? There are two basic ways I've seen this done,
> which I've provided examples of below. Method #2 is obviously the easier
> way, but that doesn't mean it may be the best way.
>
> I'm curious to read people's responses.


I would start off with a simple base class like this:

abstract class Base
{
public function __construct()
{

}

public function __destruct()
{

}

public function __toString()
{
return '<pre>' . print_r( $this, TRUE ) . '</pre>';
}

public function __get( $key )
{
return isset( $this->$key )
? $this->$key
: NULL;
}

public function __set( $key, $value )
{
$this->$key = $value;
}
}


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Greg Donald
Zend Certified Engineer
http://destiney.com/

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