Before and After Magic Methods in entities. What originally I tried to do was using __get and __set but the implementation of that made my entities properties virtually public, which was something that's a no no with doctrine. So instead of using __get __

fig1-1_MagicMethodsBefore.php

<?php

/** @MappedSuperclass */
class MagicMethods
{
    public function __get($name) {
        return $this->{strtolower($name)};
    }
    
    public function __set($name, $value)
    {
        $this->{strtolower($name)} = $value;
    }
}

fig1-2_ServiceBefore.php

<?php

$rank = new Rank;
$rank->date = $date;
$rank->value = $value;
$rank->active = 1;
$rank->site = $site;
$rank->word = $word;
$em->persist($rank);
$em->flush();

fig2-1_MagicMethodsAfter.php

<?php

/** @MappedSuperclass */
class MagicMethods
{
    public function __call($method, $args)
    {
        if (strpos($method, 'get') === 0) {
            $name = substr($method, 3);
            return $this->get($name);
        } else if (strpos($method, 'set') === 0) {
            $name = substr($method, 3);
            return $this->set($name, $args[0]);
        } else {
            throw new \Exception('Method '.$method.' not found in class: ' . get_class($this));
        }
    }
    
    public function get($name) {
        return $this->{strtolower($name)};
    }
    
    public function set($name, $value)
    {
        $this->{strtolower($name)} = $value;
    }
}

fig2-2_ServiceAfter.php

<?php

$rank = new Rank;
$rank->setDate($date);
$rank->setValue($value);
$rank->setActive(1);
$rank->setSite($xsite);
$rank->setWord($xword);
$em->persist($rank);
$em->flush();

I'm having trouble seeing the differences between these. Set and get interfaces exactly the same way between them. ($this->{strtolower($name)}). In the second example, you can get your properties with $rank->site just as well as $rank->getSite.

Something like this keeps it all private: https://gist.github.com/anoxic/6049039