Where are my Privates?

[daarius]

Hi,
anyone who is also a Java programmer will know straight away what am talking about.

anyway, as in java we have Private, Protected and of course Public attributes in a class. So as i understand in PHP we can call the methods and the attributes in a subclass from its superclass just by using:

$this->thisIsAttribute; (for attributes)
$this->thisIsFunction(); (for methods)

now lets say, i have got the db Id and password saved in some attributes in my DB class which i use for connection. what if someone extends his/her class from my DB class, and then simply echo the attributes out!

now how can i make the attributes here Private??

any ideas please...
Daarius...

[Anon]

If you can't find your privates, I doubt anyone here will want to help you!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

PHP does NOT support private methods or properties.

Not that it matters. If your class allows them to connect, they can just extend it to do whatever they want whether or not they know the username and password. So knowing the username/password doesn't gain them anything, since they already have access via the class.

Your best bet is to create a user for the class that is limited in privileges.

[daarius]

yes yes i know... but i was trying to give example.. e.g. in that case the user could simply echo the attributes...

anyway, so i guess i cant have my privates! 🙁