get set properties in php

Question

I'm from the C# environment and I'm starting to learn PHP in school. I'm used to set my properties in C# like this.

public int ID { get; set; } 

What's the equivalent to this in php?

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is none, although there are some proposals for implementing that in future versions. For now you unfortunately need to declare all getters and setters by hand.

private $ID;  public function setID($ID) {   $this->ID = $ID; }  public function getID() {   return $this->ID; } 

for some magic (PHP likes magic), you can look up __set and __get magic methods.

Example

class MyClass {    private $ID;    private function setID($ID) {     $this->ID = $ID;   }    private function getID() {     return $this->ID;   }     public function __set($name,$value) {     switch($name) { //this is kind of silly example, bt shows the idea       case 'ID':          return $this->setID($value);     }   }    public function __get($name) {     switch($name) {       case 'ID':          return $this->getID();     }   }  }   $object = new MyClass(); $object->ID = 'foo'; //setID('foo') will be called