Reading a Non-Existent Property in OOP in PHP

In the example given in the previous lesson, we applied the magic method __get to catch access to private properties. In fact, this method can also be useful for catching access to non-existent properties.

Let's look at a practical example. Suppose we have a class User with a first name and last name, which are public properties:

<?php
	class User
	{
		public $surn;
		public $name;
	}
?>

Let's make it so that the object of the class behaves as if it also has a property full, outputting the user's first and last name. Let's use our magic method __get for this:

<?php
	class User
	{
		public $surname;
		public $name;
		public $patronymic;
		
		public function __get($property)
		{
			if ($property == 'full') {
				return $this->surn . ' ' . $this->name;
			}
		}
	}
?>

Let's test:

<?php
	$user = new User;
	
	$user->surn = 'john';
	$user->name = 'smit';
	
	echo $user->full; // will output 'john smit'
?>

Create a class Date with public properties year, month and day. Using magic, create a property weekDay, which will return the day of the week corresponding to the date.