I’m not a PHP developer, so I’m wondering what the advantages and disadvantages are in PHP to using explicit getter/setters, in a pure OOP style, with private fields (the way I like):
class MyClass {
private $firstField;
private $secondField;
public function getFirstField() {
return $this->firstField;
}
public function setFirstField($x) {
$this->firstField = $x;
}
public function getSecondField() {
return $this->secondField;
}
public function setSecondField($x) {
$this->secondField = $x;
}
}
or just public fields:
class MyClass {
public $firstField;
public $secondField;
}