On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
> What's BP for changing the values of protected properties within a class that
> also has public getter/setters? e.g. in Foo::doSomething() below:
...
> protected function doSomething()
> {
> $new_value = $this->getNewValue();
>
> $this->bar = $new_value;
>
> // OR
>
> $this->setBar( $new_value );
> }
> }
If you go through the effort to create getter/setter methods, you should always
use them. Otherwise, you lose the benefit of having them - which is that more
logic can easily be placed in the getter and setter methods to do something
more than simply assign/retrieve the variable.
-Rob
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