public int var1
and themn i can “set” and “get” him, in PHP its like the opposite, becuse the magic function work only when the varible is undefined (that what i understand…) and again, the constuact was so anoying.. i used to give the constractor the name of the class so… i really dont get it why i need to use constract … but its like you said, PHP 5 is very good and i happy to use it.

Not quite sure I understand the ‘Magic’ methods. I saw the examples on the PHP site, so I understand what they can do. May actually be one of my big hang-ups. I like giving my constructors the name of the class … not ‘__construct’. ‘__get’ and ‘__set’ seem pointless because I’d set the variables the class needs and provide get/set methods for those. A programmer could make a new object from a class and throw a bunch of random data into that class’s data array using the get/sets even if the methods of that class don’t do anything with that data (that’s the PHP example showed).

I’m going to have to read up on this more. I definitely like the looks of it and the potential, but I’m going to have some hang-ups with it just like I do with PHP4.

Also, for the problem you faced there, you may find inheritance to be better suited. Basically your subclass would inherit from the parent class, and shared functions would be stored in the parent class, then you’d initiate the subclass through a static function stored in the parent class. This also allows you to set a standard set of functions in the parent class (see ‘Implements’) and makes it more obvious to developers what function calls are.

Using magic is handy, but it also hides a lot of things under its sleeves, and when you’re coding you want to make things as clear as possible.