Visibility In Yii Classes

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi,

since this is the second time I run into visibility problems, I would like to understand why so many things in Yii are private, not protected.

I’m tempted to file a ticket, but then it might just be turned down because it entails so many changes, so I want to understand first.

I had a similar problem with CLocale and CNumberFormatter having $_locale set private, meaning I had to duplicate $_locale and the functions around it in order to extend the locale functionality.

I cannot understand why these functions are not protected, and I remember once seeing a ticket about somebody having similar problems with locale (it was marked wontfix if I remember correctly).

Thank you.

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To not make a double post, please check this answer I gave to a similar problem - http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/37059-protected-instead-of-private/page__p__181304#entry181304

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Oh, thank you, sorry for missing that! And I would wholeheartedly support changing every variable that will definitely stay the way it is to protected, I don’t understand or actually see arguments against that.