How do getters and setters work?

Question

I\'m from the php world. Could you explain what getters and setters are and could give you some examples?

Answer 1

class Clock {  
        String time;  

        void setTime (String t) {  
           time = t;  
        }  

        String getTime() {  
           return time;  
        }  
}  


class ClockTestDrive {  
   public static void main (String [] args) {  
   Clock c = new Clock;  

   c.setTime("12345")  
   String tod = c.getTime();  
   System.out.println(time: " + tod);  
 }
}  

When you run the program, program starts in mains,

1. object c is created
2. function setTime() is called by the object c
3. the variable time is set to the value passed by
4. function getTime() is called by object c
5. the time is returned
6. It will passe to tod and tod get printed out