I have a small problem here and I’m not sure how to handle it.
I have an Active Record model class callsed User. The db table has an attribute "active". Therefore, you can access a property in User class like $User->active.
What I’d like to do now is to disable or disallow direct property access. In normal circumstances I’d define $active property as private but since Yii doesn’t work that way - I can’t. If I define it as private, it doesn’t get set when I load object properties via i.e. findByPK().
The bottom line is - how can I enforce accessing this kind of property only through getters and setters and not directly?
Actually I have misread that you meant only attributes representing table column names.
So if you declare a virtual attribute as private, we can do the following.
In the example I have declared a private property nativity.
class User extends CActiveRecord
{
private $nativity;
//you have to override the getter and setter methods.
public function __get($name)
{
if(property_exists($this,$name))
return $this->$name;
else return parent::__get($name);
}
public function __set($name,$value)
{
if(property_exists($this,$name))
$this->$name=$value;
else parent::__set($name,$value);
}
With this scenario , if you want this virtual property nativity to represent a column in a database,
