Getter and Setter?

Question

I\'m not a PHP developer, so I\'m wondering if in PHP is more popular to use explicit getter/setters, in a pure OOP style, with private fields (the way I like):

Answer 1

If you preffer to use the __call function, you can use this method. It works with

• GET => $this->property()
• SET => $this->property($value)
• GET => $this->getProperty()
• SET => $this->setProperty($value)

kalsdas

public function __call($name, $arguments) {

    //Getting and setting with $this->property($optional);

    if (property_exists(get_class($this), $name)) {


        //Always set the value if a parameter is passed
        if (count($arguments) == 1) {
            /* set */
            $this->$name = $arguments[0];
        } else if (count($arguments) > 1) {
            throw new \Exception("Setter for $name only accepts one parameter.");
        }

        //Always return the value (Even on the set)
        return $this->$name;
    }

    //If it doesn't chech if its a normal old type setter ot getter
    //Getting and setting with $this->getProperty($optional);
    //Getting and setting with $this->setProperty($optional);
    $prefix = substr($name, 0, 3);
    $property = strtolower($name[3]) . substr($name, 4);
    switch ($prefix) {
        case 'get':
            return $this->$property;
            break;
        case 'set':
            //Always set the value if a parameter is passed
            if (count($arguments) != 1) {
                throw new \Exception("Setter for $name requires exactly one parameter.");
            }
            $this->$property = $arguments[0];
            //Always return the value (Even on the set)
            return $this->$name;
        default:
            throw new \Exception("Property $name doesn't exist.");
            break;
    }
}