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3.3 DECLARING A CLASS
You might have noticed from the previous example that declaring a class (an
object template) is simple. You use the class keyword, give the class a name,
and list all the methods and properties an instance of this class should have:
class MyClass {
… // List of methods
…
… // List of properties
…
}
You may have noticed that, in front of the declaration of the $name prop-
erty, we used the private keyword. We explain this keyword in detail later, but
it basically means that only methods in this class can access $name. It forces
anyone wanting to get/set this property to use the getName() and setName()
methods, which represent the class’s interface for use by other objects or
source code.