Method and Property Visibility
Explore how to control access to class methods and properties in PHP using visibility keywords. Understand public, private, and protected modifiers to manage scope and access within and outside class hierarchies.
Access modifiers provide access to the variables of a class. In this lesson, we will discuss the three visibility types that you can apply to methods (class/object functions) and properties (class/object variables) within a class. Access modifiers provide access control for the method or property to which they are applied.
Public
Declaring a method or a property as public allows the method or property to be accessed by:
- The class that declared it.
- The classes that inherits from the declared class.
- Any external objects, classes, or