Why Do We Need Access Modifiers?
Explore how access modifiers enhance security and control in PHP object-oriented programming. Understand the role of public and private modifiers, and learn to use public methods to interact safely with private properties through validation.
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We need access modifiers to limit the modifications that code from outside the classes can make to the class’s methods and properties.
Once we define a property or method as private, only methods within the class are allowed to approach it. So, in order to interact with private methods and properties, we need to provide public methods. Inside these methods, we can put logic that can validate and restrict data that comes from outside the class. ...