[nyphp-talk] Getter/setter best practices

[Yitzchak Schaffer]

Hello all,

What's BP for changing the values of protected properties within a class 
that also has public getter/setters?  e.g. in Foo::doSomething() below:

class Foo
{
  protected $bar;

  public function getBar()
  {
    return $this->bar;
  }

  public function setBar( $baz )
  {
    $this->bar = $baz;
  }

  // ...

  protected function doSomething()
  {
    $new_value = $this->getNewValue();

    $this->bar = $new_value;

    // OR

    $this->setBar( $new_value );
  }
}

Which is preferred, if either?

Thanks!

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Yitzchak Schaffer
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