There's no harm in doing it that way. By convention across my classes though I declare properties private and provide access via public getter methods.
The reason I use getters instead of direct access to properties (especially in PHP) is you can hide a lot of laziness behind them (i.e. database runs, object initialization etc) while at the same time providing a consistent interface to client code.
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There's no harm in doing it that way. By convention across my classes though I declare properties private and provide access via public getter methods.
The reason I use getters instead of direct access to properties (especially in PHP) is you can hide a lot of laziness behind them (i.e. database runs, object initialization etc) while at the same time providing a consistent interface to client code.