Is this a reasonable way to handle getters/setters in a PHP class?

Question

I\'m going to try something with the format of this question and I\'m very open to suggestions about a better way to handle it.

I didn\'t want to just dump a bunch o

Answer 1

The way I do it is the following:

class test {
    protected $x='';
    protected $y='';

    function set_y ($y) {
        print "specific function set_y\n";
        $this->y = $y;
    }

    function __call($function , $args) {
        print "generic function $function\n";
        list ($name , $var ) = split ('_' , $function );
        if ($name == 'get' && isset($this->$var)) {
            return $this->$var;
        }
        if ($name == 'set' && isset($this->$var)) {
            $this->$var= $args[0];
            return;
        }
        trigger_error ("Fatal error: Call to undefined method test::$function()");
    }
}

$p = new test();
$p->set_x(20);
$p->set_y(30);
print $p->get_x();
print $p->get_y();

$p->set_z(40);

Which will output (line breaks added for clarity)

generic function set_x
specific function set_y

generic function get_x
20
generic function get_y
30

generic function set_z
Notice: Fatal error: Call to undefined method set_z() in [...] on line 16