6.8. Access Types
Access types allow developers to restrict access to members of their classes. They are new to PHP 5, but are a well-known feature of many object-oriented languages. Access types provide a fundamental building block of reliable object-oriented applications and are a crucial requirement for reusable object-oriented infrastructure libraries.
Like C++ and Java, PHP features three kinds of access types: public, private, and protected. A class member may be one of these. If you do not specify an access type, the member is public. You may give an access type to a static member, in which case the access type should precede the static keyword.
Public members can be accessed with no restrictions. Any code outside of the class may read ...
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