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Doc Bug #38716 Fatal error: Cannot access private property
Submitted: 2006-09-04 20:08 UTC Modified: 2006-09-04 21:04 UTC
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From: mmerlone at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 5.1.6 OS: Ubuntu linux 6.06 2.6.15-26-686
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-09-04 20:08 UTC] mmerlone at gmail dot com 
Description:
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Overloading method __set does not work for private variables as the example "Example 19-20. overloading with __get, __set, __isset and __unset example" from http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php .
This is the same of bug #34893 (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34893) which claims to be fixed, but is not.

Reproduce code:
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<?
        class bla{
                private $variavel;
                function bla(){
                }
                function __set($vn, $vv){
                        $this->$vn = $vv;
                }
        }

        $bla = new bla();
        $bla->variavel = 1;
        echo "bla->variavel=".$bla->variavel."\n";
?>

Expected result:
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bla->variavel=1

Actual result:
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Fatal error: Cannot access private property bla::$variavel in /devel/testes/private.php on line 14

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 [2006-09-04 20:17 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
 [2006-09-04 20:54 UTC] mmerlone at gmail dot com 
So, if it works as expected, the documentation should be fixed, since the example shows the __set changind a private variable.
 [2006-09-04 21:04 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Yes, __set() does change the private property, but your code tries to modify the property directly and this is totally different case.
The documentation is correct.
 
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