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awongCM
awongCM

Reputation: 927

have this puzzling PHP 5 OOP query

I'm reading this ebook, Beginning PHP5 and Mysql: From Novice to Professional, and in the OOP section, I'm trying out this sample code to reproduce the same results on my computer vs the book.

class Staff
{
var $name;
var $city;
protected $wage;
    function __get($propName)
    {
        echo "__get called!<br />";
        $vars = array("name","city");
        if (in_array($propName, $vars))
        {
        return $this->$propName;
        } else {
        return "No such variable!";
        }
    }
}
$employee = new Staff();
$employee->name = "Mario";
echo $employee->name."<br />";
echo $employee->age;

In the book - the results are shown as:

Mario
__get called!
No such variable!

But on my computer:

Mario

Only the first line. The other two lines were "ignored". Why is that?!?!

Is there some configuration setting on my php.ini that I need to modify to get this working? Can someone please help to explain?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 123

Answers (2)

Berry Langerak
Berry Langerak

Reputation: 18859

__get() will only get called for non-public or non-existant properties. Now, there is a property called name, so your magic method won't get called. Change var $name into private $name and it will work.

Upvotes: 1

MikeSW
MikeSW

Reputation: 16348

OK I think I found the answer. According to php docs

All overloading methods must be defined as public.

so make the magic method public

public function __get() {}

Upvotes: 0

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