Dynamically add a private property to an object

Question

I have a class:

class Foo {
    // Accept an assoc array and appends its indexes to the object as property
    public function extend($values){
        forea         


        

Answer 1

I would work with the whole array:

$Foo = new Foo;
$Foo->setOptions(array('name' => 'Bee'));

class Foo {
    private $options = array();

    public function setOptions(array $options) {
        $this->options = $options;
    }

    public function getOption($value = false) {
        if($value) {
            return $this->options[$value];    
        } else {
            return $this->options;
        }
    }
}

Then you have more options when you need other values and you can iterate through the array and work with them. When you have single variable in most cases its a bit complecated.