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user656925
user656925

Reputation:

Should I be using the var keyword in PHP?

I just reviewed my code and I realize that I never use

var

However I read

http://www.php.net/manual/en/keyword.class.php

and it seems to say that one should use var.

<?php
class Cart {
    var $items;  // Items in our shopping cart
     ....blah
}
?>

In this example what privacy is var set to.

For my purposes I just normally do:

private $some_var;
public $some_var;
protected $some_var;

What is best practice?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 341

Answers (3)

Lance Bryant
Lance Bryant

Reputation: 157

PHP4 used var. php4 had objects just like php5, but php5 did a much better job on working with and extending objects. Var is not required by any expression in php5 that I am aware of. They continued to allow its use because they had to allow old code in php4 to run on php5.

In php5 you use instead public,private,protected for all of your object variables. I believe VAR and public are the same thing technically, and var will be treated as a public variable.

Upvotes: 2

zerkms
zerkms

Reputation: 255005

var is php4 only thing. For all php5 code you need to use proper visibility scope keywords.

Upvotes: 1

Evert
Evert

Reputation: 99687

var is identical to public. BUT most modern coding standards prefer 'public' over var.

Howevever, there is no real difference at all.

Upvotes: 3

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