hkothari Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 So lately I've been just making all members of my classes private and created accessor methods to get the values, but no operation is done to a lot of these members, it's just returning the values and that's it. Is there a reason to do this or not to do it? It has been common practice for me in other languages, but I feel like it isn't necessary in this case. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177203-solved-private-members-and-acessor-methods/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 So lately I've been just making all members of my classes private and created accessor methods to get the values, but no operation is done to a lot of these members, it's just returning the values and that's it. Is there a reason to do this or not to do it? It has been common practice for me in other languages, but I feel like it isn't necessary in this case. Well, IMO, it depends on the operations being done on the data. If you're merely treating the object as a collection of data that can be stored and/or retrieved, you could define it as something like a PHP version of a struct by keeping the data members public. If you're doing anything more advanced/complex, keep the encapsulation in place. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177203-solved-private-members-and-acessor-methods/#findComment-934357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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