On 2010-12-01, Arvids Godjuks <arvids.godj...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are missing the point in PHP in that case. Because PHP is dynamic > scripting language, public properties can be added and removed in the > object on the fly. That's why there is isset and unset that works on > object properties. Consider ActiveRecord, DataMappers, ORM, etc. They > use that 100% to their advantage - I haven't yet seen a model witch > defines all the properties in PHP code - mostly it takes table columns > from DB and add these properties in dynamic way. > That's why it isn't so straight forward of adding properties like you propose.
The new generation of ORMs and data mappers are actually using plain old PHP objects -- which means you can define the properties up-front in your code, and the mappers then inject from whatever data source they pull from. They're *not* defining properties on the fly. (Original iterations of ActiveRecord and ORMs *were* -- but newer ones are typically not.) > P.S. By the way, maybe I haven't being doing some really crazy stuff > on PHP, but I rarely define getters and setters in my classes that do > something except $this->val = $val and return $this->val. Well, > honestly I haven't worked on some stuff developed by more that 6 > programmers too (Latvia is a small county - no major epic projects at > all), but still I think my point is valid. I think it *used* to be... but is getting less so with modern PHP developers, based on what I'm observing in a number of communities (ZF, Symfony, even Lithium...). > 2010/12/1 <presid...@basnetworks.net>: >>>> public property Hours read getHours write setHours; >>> >>> I actually like that, though I think we should support the whole >>> existing semantics, i.e. get/set/isset/unset. And probably keep the >>> names, so we don't call the same thing both "read" and "get". >> >> This doesn't make sense. To call isset() on a property, would be to ask >> if the property itself exists. But once defined, a property always exists >> (think of methods, for example). >> >> (Sorry for sending again Stas, I forgot to reply all) >> - Dennis >> >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matt...@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
