First of all, I think it is important to note that this has nothing to
do with security. Anyone who relies on OOP visibility features for any
security is making a serious mistake, these are not security features
and should not be used as such.
From my understanding of OOP and class handling a private property must
not be changed or visible from outside the class.
And protected properties should only be visible and changeable from the
own or an extended class.
Yes, and it is - unless you employ some trickery outside of the context
of OO. You shouldn't do that unless you know what you are doing.
Changing and accessing private properties from everywhere outside the
class object ??
Is this normal behaviour ??
No, it's not normal - this is why you have to employ non-normal code to
achieve it.
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer
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