Since php does not support private classes, what naming conventions are there to denote them?

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I've seen people use classes starting with underscore _ but have been told to keep away from such standard since its been from the old PHP 4 days.

Any alternatives?

How can you have a private class? A private method, which can be called from within the class alone is one thing, but if a class were to be private, how would you even instantiate it? — fubar
– fubar, Commented Mar 23, 2017 at 21:45
I still use _ (underscore) for private and __ for magic / reserved things. Heard of Hungarian notation? Looser languages and IDEs you don't see much of that anymore. I respect devs that name things well. — ficuscr
– ficuscr, Commented Mar 23, 2017 at 21:50

jfadich · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-23 21:49:00Z

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PHP doesn't have private classes but if you're using PHP7+ you can use anonymous classes.

class MyClass { private function getPrivateClass() { return new class { protected $property = "I'm a private class"; public function getProperty() { return $this->property; } }; } }

answered Mar 23, 2017 at 21:49

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Basil Musa Over a year ago

I'm interested in any naming conventions used for private classes.

jfadich Over a year ago

@BasilMusa Private classes are not a common pattern in PHP (in part because it's not supported by the language). I've actually never heard of it used in PHP at all. As such I don't think there is any naming convention.

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