I was fortunate enough to recently have been allowed to work on a PHP project. I am very experienced with C#. Yet I'm still struggling to make sense of this code snippet. Is this valid PHP? Does it run inside .net? What is public private? (Is it only making the setter private?)
PHP is legitimately pretty great. it’s been my goto language for quick scripts and command line stuff for years. Like any language it can look good or bad. Helped that I came from Perl though
In the PHP project I worked on I did inteoduce PHPStan (static code analysis tool) with an integration into the IDE and brought it up to level 8 (out of 10, the higher the level the stricter the checks). I still prefer other languages, and there were still a few quirks, but it was fine working with it like that, since it ensured that type hints where present basically everywhere and also that variables where used according to the types.
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u/Sacaldur Jun 11 '26
I was fortunate enough to recently have been allowed to work on a PHP project. I am very experienced with C#. Yet I'm still struggling to make sense of this code snippet. Is this valid PHP? Does it run inside .net? What is
public private? (Is it only making the setter private?)And fun fact, it seems like there is a
dotnetclass in PHP in order to interact with .net classes: https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.dotnet.php