Question

If i use magic __set to set a value to private var how could i set a var as an array ?

Im thinking of something like this, pretend i have a class with __get __set

$myclass->names = 'Name'; // Works
$myclass->names = array('n1'=>'Name1', 'n2' => 'Name2'); // works as well

//this does not work
$myclass->names['n1'] = 'Name1';
$myclass->names['n2'] = 'Name2';

Its the 2 last examples i want to get to work. Have tested various ways but cant figure it out.

Answer 1

It won’t work. $class->arr['key'] will execute the getter. So basically, what your code will look like is:

array('key' => 'value')['key'] = 'new value';

Which, obviously, does nothing. If you want that to work, you will have to declare the names as a public property.