Andrew Ballard wrote: > I have been looking over the data mapper pattern used in the current > Quickstart. I like the separation of the data model from the storage, > but I have a question. > > In the guestbook model, setId() and setCreated() are declared public. > I realize this is necessary in the example because the values are > being set by the mapper, which is external to the domain model class. > However, I would think that it would be desirable some properties such > as these one to be generally read-only. Is there any way to control > which external classes are able to use these methods? Java has a > package scope that would work, but PHP doesn't even have a concept of > packages in its OO implementation. > > Andrew > If you can have the external classes be derived classes, then you can make them protected and the derived classes can access them.
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