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playing around with emulation of array dynamic properties using __get, __set
<?php
class MyClass
{
protected $p = array();
public function &__get($name)
{
echo "Getting: $name\n";
if (!isset($this->p[$name])) {
// normally one would trigger a warning here, but this line is called by code doing point-blank `$obj->prop[] = $thing;`
$this->p[$name] = array();
}
return $this->p[$name];
}
public function __set($name, $value)
{
echo "Setting $name to: "; var_dump($value);
$this->p[$name] = $value;
}
}
$c = new MyClass();
$c->plain = 1;
$c->magic[] = 1;
$c->magic[] = array(2);
$c->magic[0] = 2;
var_dump($c->plain);
var_dump($c->magic);
$c->other = array();
$c->other[] = 1;
$c->other[] = true;
$c->other[0] = 2;
var_dump($c->other);
$c->more = array();
$d = $c->more;
$d[] = 1;
var_dump($d);
var_dump($c->more);
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