Challenge: Access Modifiers

Add a property to a class and write appropriate getter and setter functions.

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Task

Let’s consider a User class that contains a private property with the name of $firstName.

  • Create a setter method to set the $firstName property value. Remember to use the suitable access modifier (public/private).
  • Create a getter method to return the $firstName value.
  • Inside a test() method, create a new user object with the name of $user1, set its name using the setter method to Joe, and return its name from the test() method using the getter method.

Coding exercise

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