Why is it possible to assign data to _not_declared_ vars in a class (PHP 5.0.3)?

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Hello All,

Why is this working?

<?php

class foobar {
public
$a,
$b;


   public function __construct() {
      $this->a = "Hello ";
      $this->b = "world! ";
      $this->c = "Good bye... ";
   }

public function foo() {
echo $this->a."<br>";
echo $this->b."<br>";
echo $this->c."<br>"; }
}


?>

CALL:
$test = new foobar();
$test->foo();

OUTPUT:
Hello
world
Good bye...



If i understand right, all variables should be declared in PHP5. So why is it possible to add a membervariable called "c" to the object without making a declaration? I got no error with this. I thought E_STRICT should show me things like that. Could someone explain me that?

I found this problem by building one dynamic get and set method for all member variables with the help of the interceptor method __call() . In this method i originally has build a try catch block that looks like this:

<example_code>
try {
   $this->non_existent_member = "FooBar";
} catch (Exception $e) {
   echo "The variable 'non_existent_member' is not declared!";
}
</example_code>

I expected that the try block should catch the ERROR run the catch block but this doesn't heppend and and took some time to figure that out. I think it is really bad, that this kind of logical error must be catched in some way or must be at least reported with E_STRICT on. I am only develping with E_STRICT and thought this will give hints to all design faults.

Kind regards

Johannes Findeisen


P.S.: I am going crazy ... This works too:

<?php

class foobar {
public
$a,
$b;


   var $bla;

   public function __construct() {
      $this->a = "Hello ";
      $this->b = "world! ";
      $this->c = "Good bye... ";
   }

public function foo() {
echo $this->a."<br>";
echo $this->b."<br>";
echo $this->c."<br>"; }
}


class failover {

   public
       $foobar;

   public function __construct() {

$this->foobar = new foobar();
$this->foobar->d = "...all Aliens! ";
}
public function bar() {
echo $this->foobar->a."<br>";
echo $this->foobar->b."<br>";
echo $this->foobar->c."<br>";
echo $this->foobar->d."<br>";
}
}


?>

CALL:
$test = new foobar();
$test->foo();

$test2 = new failover();
$test2->bar();

OUTPUT:
Hello
world!
Good bye...
Hello
world!
Good bye...
...all Aliens!

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