Question

I’m using __get and __set methods for variable overloading.

In some cases I will assign another object to a variable, for example:

$object->name->another = $another_object;

$object, has the __get and __set methods. When I try to access $object->name->another before it’s been set, I get the error

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object

Is there anyway around this using overloading? without having to check isset on the variable.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Not $object but $object->name needs to have the overloading with __get()/__set() if you want to interact to prevent the error in question:

$object->name->another = 'something';
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

For example you can make $object::__get() return an empty stdClass object, PHP would then automatically assign a public member to it in this case.