You can easily add something like accessors using traits. I cooked this up in 5 minutes: https://gist.github.com/jsebrech/6740010 https://gist.github.com/jsebre

You can easily add something like accessors using traits. I cooked this up in 5 minutes: https://gist.github.com/jsebrech/6740010 https://gist.github.com/jsebrech/6740010 You can do a lot with meta-programming in PHP. For example, you can write your own array type if you are so inclined and use it anywhere you would use an array. Here's an experimental library that showcases the meta-programming abilities: https://github.com/jsebrech/php-o https://github.com/jsebrech/php-o