On 25 Aug 2008, at 13:32, Philip Thompson wrote:
Curious. Which do you prefer and why?<?php class Hello { public $hi; function __construct () { $this->hi = 'Well Hello There!'; } function hi () { return $this->hi; } } $hello = new Hello (); // Access the value this way... echo $hello->hi; // or the accessor... echo $hello->hi(); ?>For publicly-declared variables, do you access the attribute directly or use an accessor?
If it's a public member variable there is no need for plain accessor methods - they add no value. I feel the same about private variables with plain get and set accessors, there's just no point unless the accessors are doing more than setting and getting the internal variable.
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