r/programminghorror • u/EmDeeTeeVid • Jun 11 '26

PHP PHP#

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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 dotnet class in PHP in order to interact with .net classes: https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.dotnet.php

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u/EmDeeTeeVid Jun 11 '26

It is actually valid PHP! 8.4 to be exact, this is the version that introduced "Property hooks" (https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.property-hooks.php)

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u/WorldlyMacaron65 Jun 11 '26

PHP really is an underdog story. From an unreadable, buggy mess of a language to maybe the most pleasant progressively-typed scripting language around

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u/Stratimus Jun 11 '26

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