Editing Mutator method (section)

===PHP===
PHP defines the "magic methods" <code>__get</code>and<code>__set</code> for properties of objects.<ref>{{Cite web|title=PHP: Overloading - Manual|url=https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php|access-date=2021-07-06|website=www.php.net}}</ref>

In this example of a simple [[Class (computer science)|class]] representing a student with only the name stored, one can see the [[Variable (programming)|variable]] ''name'' is private, i.e. only visible from the Student class, and the "setter" and "getter" is public, namely the <code>getName()</code> and <code>setName('name')</code> methods.
<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
class Student
{
    private string $name;

    /**
     * @return string The name.
     */
    public function getName(): string
    {
        return $this->name;
    }

    /**
     * @param string $newName The name to set.
     */
    public function setName(string $newName): void
    {
        $this->name = $newName;
    }
}</syntaxhighlight>