Getter and Setter?

Question

I\'m not a PHP developer, so I\'m wondering if in PHP is more popular to use explicit getter/setters, in a pure OOP style, with private fields (the way I like):

Answer 1

Why use getters and setters?

1. Scalability: It's easier refactor a getter than search all the var assignments in a project code.
2. Debugging: You can put breakpoints at setters and getters.
3. Cleaner: Magic functions are not good solution for writting less, your IDE will not suggest the code. Better use templates for fast-writting getters.