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[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
Systems Manager
Touro College Libraries
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