[BNM] Dumb PHP question

[paul perrin]

A bit of a shame you have to provide your own hook to be able to add such
things. A waste of the programmers time, and additional lines of code to
host bugs.

Paul /)/+)

On 03/06/07, Tom Hume <Tom.Hume at futureplatforms.com> wrote:
>
> Nope; they let you add things like value and type checking later on
> without having to do massive search-and-replaces on your code.
>
> On 3 Jun 2007, at 00:32, paul perrin wrote:
>
> > Isn't the automatic use of getter and setter methods the last
> > refuge for those that don't really know when to use public properties?
> >
> > Paul /)/+)l
> >
> >
> > On 02/06/07, Richard Maynard / Wessex Networks
> > <rjm at wessexnetworks.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Shouldn't class variables be modified with getter and setter methods
> >> rather
> >> than modifying them as if public?
> >>
> >> I believe that is what is called bad practice in Java, but PHP
> >> seems to be
> >> more of a free-for-all when it comes to best practices.
> >>
> >> Richard.
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> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> >> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Justin
> >> Wanstall
> >> Sent: 02 June 2007 12:11
> >> To: 'Brighton New Media'
> >> Subject: Re: [BNM] Dumb PHP question
> >>
> >> The $claim part refers to an instance of a class which has been
> >> initiated
> >> and the ->value is simply a value within that instance. It's Object
> >> Oriented
> >> programming.
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming
> >>
> >> Justin.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Alan Newman [mailto:alan at sensibledevelopment.com]
> >> Sent: 02 June 2007 11:52
> >> To: 'Brighton New Media'
> >> Subject: [BNM] Dumb PHP question
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> We have inherited a PHP UI for a back end application we are
> >> customizing
> >> and
> >> I can't find an answer to this on the web, but I suspect I am just
> >> not
> >> looking in the right places.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> We are seeing this sort of expression a lot and are not sure what
> >> it is:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> $claim->value
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It seems to come up a lot - is it some sort of "injection" of one
> >> value in
> >> to another? It would really help to know what is going in and
> >> would help
> >> out
> >> us silly Java types a lot!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> - Alan
> >>
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