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[Guilherme Blanco]

**ALL** declared methods in an Interface MUST be declared as public.

http://www.php.net/interface

Cheers,

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Joseph Crawford <codebowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys in the past I have used interfaces and have do not recall hitting this
> issue.
> I have the following interface
> <?php
> interface Pagable
> {
> private function getPreviousPage();
> private function getNextPage();
> private function getCurrentPage();
> private function getStartPage();
> private function getLastPage();
> private function getTotalPages();
> public function getPageString();
> public function getTotalResults();
> }
> class YP_Listing_Handler implements Pagable
> {
> ...
> private function getPreviousPage()
> {
> return $this->getCurrentPage() - 1;
> }
> ...
> }
> I keep getting this error.
> Fatal error: Access type for interface method Pagable::getPreviousPage()
> must be omitted in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/yp/inc/Pagable.php on line 5
>
> I am not sure what is causing it but if I remove the private keyword then it
> complains that it must be declared public in the class.
> Is there a reason I cannot declare a method as being private in the
> interface?
> Thanks,
> Joseph Crawford
>
>
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