On 10/9/07, Larry Garfield <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > $sucker = new TryToViolateEncapsulation(); > > $sucker = (array)$sucker; > > > > $keys = array_keys( $sucker ); > > $sucker[reset( $keys )] = 500; > > > > $sucker = serialize( (object)$sucker ); > > $sucker = 'O:25:"TryToViolateEncapsulation"'.substr( $sucker, 14 ); > > $sucker = unserialize( $sucker ); > > > > print_r( $sucker ); > > > > > > > > Maybe next time you'll have a challenge for me ;) And don't whine about > > how I achieved what I did. > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > I've never actually thought of doing it that way, but I must say I find it > an > amusing method. :-) i new rob would come up w/ something otherwise he wouldnt have made the offer. i tried to override the __sleep method to throw an exception but it had no effect; rob really knows php well. That said, I stand by my earlier comment. Never use private > variables. Ever. > Use public or protected, but never private. Private makes them > un-extensible > to child classes. That's just flat out rude. right; protected is only for variables that the child class would need access to; even children dont need access to all of their parents details. i say; mark all member variables private and reduce the access as need be. And really, there's FAR more interesting and useful pieces to OOP, PHP's > style > or otherwise, than PPP. Interfaces are useful. Being able to pass > objects > around to each other without performance or references dying is > useful. And > SPL is just plain cool. :-) yes; SPL is really nice; though some more documentation would be great. the articles online mostly cover basic usage examples. -nathan
