Starting in PHP 8.4, properties may also have their visibility set asymmetrically with a different scope for reading and writing. Learn how to use this exciting feature coming to PHP!

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PHP 8.4 introduces asymmetric property visibility, allowing different visibility scopes for reading and writing properties. This means properties can have various access levels for getting and setting. An example demonstrates how public properties can be set to have protected or private set visibility, giving developers more granular control. Note that class properties must have a type and set must be as restrictive or more restrictive than get.

Asymmetric Property Visibility in PHP 8.4

I can not see how the property hooks are better than just simple getters and setters methods.
Can anyone explain it to me?

Nice, I didn’t catch this. I thought it was only for magic setters and getters

This is just more confusing and will introduce more inconsistency imo. I used to like PHP but this feature (and property hooks) in this 8.4 update are just a nonsense.

Only this “private(set)” which is totally unnecessary, messed up the syntax. Only “public private $…” was necessary.