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Mastering PHP 7

By : Branko Ajzele
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Mastering PHP 7

By: Branko Ajzele

Overview of this book

PHP is a server-side scripting language that is widely used for web development. With this book, you will get a deep understanding of the advanced programming concepts in PHP and how to apply it practically The book starts by unveiling the new features of PHP 7 and walks you through several important standards set by PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG). You’ll see, in detail, the working of all magic methods, and the importance of effective PHP OOP concepts, which will enable you to write effective PHP code. You will find out how to implement design patterns and resolve dependencies to make your code base more elegant and readable. You will also build web services alongside microservices architecture, interact with databases, and work around third-party packages to enrich applications. This book delves into the details of PHP performance optimization. You will learn about serverless architecture and the reactive programming paradigm that found its way in the PHP ecosystem. The book also explores the best ways of testing your code, debugging, tracing, profiling, and deploying your PHP application. By the end of the book, you will be able to create readable, reliable, and robust applications in PHP to meet modern day requirements in the software industry.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
16
Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling

Using __set()


Aside from method overloading, property overloading is another aspect of the PHP overloading capabilities. There are four magic methods in PHP that support the property overloading: __set(), __get(), __isset(), and __unset(). Throughout this section, we will take a closer look at the __set() method.

The __set() magic method is triggered when trying to write data to inaccessible properties. 

The method accepts two parameters, as per the following synopsis:

public void __set(string $name, mixed $value)

Whereas, the __set() method parameters have the following meaning:

  • $name: This is the name of the property being interacted with
  • $value: This is the value that the $name property should be set to

Let's take a look at the following object context example:

<?php

class User
{
  private $data = array();

  private $name;
  protected $age;
  public $salary;

  public function __set($name, $value)
  {
    $this->data[$name] = $value;
  }
}

$user = new User();
$user->name = 'John'...