Best to use Private methods or Protected methods?

Question

In a lot of my PHP projects, I end up with classes that have non-public functions that I don\'t intend to extend.

Is it best to declare these as protected, or privat

Answer 1

I think you should only expose what you need to when you need to. This makes doing impact assessments of changes easier. i.e. If a method is private, you know the impact will be minimal if you change it.