things will break. New code should use the standard method of setting
visibilities as normal.
- - Member variables are generally "mXxx" to distinguish them. This should make
- it easier to spot errors of forgetting the required "$this->", which PHP
- will happily accept by creating a new local variable rather than complaining.
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- Globals are particularly evil in PHP; it sets a lot of them automatically
from cookies, query strings, and such, leading to namespace conflicts; when
a variable name is used in a function, it is silently declared as a new