PHP 7 Quick Scripting Reference, Second Edition

© Mikael Olsson 2016

Mikael Olsson, PHP 7 Quick Scripting Reference, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1922-5_11

11. Access Levels

Mikael Olsson¹ 

(1)Hammarland, Finland

Every class member has an accessibility level that determines where the member is visible. There are three of them available in PHP: public, protected, and private.

class MyClass{  public    $myPublic;    // unrestricted access  protected $myProtected; // enclosing or child class  private   $myPrivate;   // enclosing class only}

Private Access

All members, regardless of access level, are accessible in the class in which they are declared—the enclosing class. This is the only place where a private member can be accessed.

class MyClass{  public    $myPublic    = 'public';  protected $myProtected = 'protected'; ...