Posted by "Christopher J. Bottaro" on 05/22/05 18:56

Jochem Maas wrote:

> Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
>> Maybe I'm using "reentrant" incorrectly, but here is what I mean...
>>
>> class Test {
>> function __get($nm) {
>> if ($nm == 'x')
>> return $this->func();
>> elseif ($nm == 'y')
>> return 'y';
>> elseif ($nm == 'xx')
>> return 'x';
>> }
>> function func() {
>> return $this->xx;
>> }
>> }
>> $t = new Test();
>> print $t->y . "\n";
>> print $t->xx . "\n";
>> print $t->x . "\n";
>> print $t->func() . "\n";
>>
>> I would expect the following code to output:
>> y
>> x
>> x
>> x
>>
>> But instead, it outputs:
>> y
>> x
>>
>> x
>>
>> Is this a bug? This limitation is not documented (maybe it should be?).
>
> its not a bug, I believe its documented somewhere how this works.
> bottom line __get() does not work from 'inside' the class/object,
> so do something like instead:
>
> function func() {
> return $this->__get('xx');
> }
>
> which may not please the soul, but does work ;-)

Hehe, my soul is hard to please...=P

Actually, __get() does work from inside the class. In the sample code I
posted, func() does indeed return 'x' when called from main. It does not
work when called from within a call to __get(). In other words,
$this->attribute does not work if __get() appears anywhere in the call
stack.

Its just a small annoyance. I use $this->attribute everywhere in the class,
but I have to remember to use $this->__get(attribute) in methods that can
be called from __get().

-- C

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