subclasses & privacy modifiers

[nodirtyrockstar]

Is it considered incorrect practice to declare privacy modifiers on variable/properties of subclasses?

 

for example:

class SubClass {
    var $property = 'notice there is no private, public, or protected keyword here';
}

[nodirtyrockstar]

Okay, I found that using the var keyword automatically declares it as public. Does that mean it is still possible to modify privacy with private or protected here?

[nodirtyrockstar]

Answered my own question!

[kicken]

var should not be used, it's a PHP4 convention and has been obsolete since PHP5 was released. It's mapped as an alias to public and still works only for backwards compatibility reasons. New code should use either public, private, or protected to declare the variables, which ever is appropriate for that variable.

 

class Klass { 
   public $aPublicVar;
   protected $aProtectedVar;
   private $aPrivateVar;
}

[nodirtyrockstar]

Of course you are right! I was in the JavaScript zone!