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I noticed that Joomla uses less secure var type for variables in classes
Why is this?
In my own components,plugins,modules should I follow this convention or use a more secure private, public and protected keywords.
Joomla’s roots are in PHP 4, (and as @Palantir notes, they even still support it!).
It is very difficult to “add” PHP 5’s new OOP features like
private/public/protectedto a complex system like that. There are too many dependencies to be aware of, and too much potential for obscure bugs.They will probably start appearing in the future when PHP 4 support is dropped (shouldn’t be long anymore), and parts of the system undergo a fundamental rewrite.