---
title: "Asymmetric Property Visibility in PHP 8.4"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/asymmetric-property-visibility-in-php-8-4-v2yhtcrfa
source_url: https://laravel-news.com/asymmetric-property-visibility-in-php-84
type: article
source: "Laravel News"
published: 2024-11-20T14:11:44.102Z
updated: 2024-12-08T21:29:00.656Z
tags: ["webdev", "php"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 55
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# Asymmetric Property Visibility in PHP 8.4

**[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 2 min read · 55 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

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.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@4r4ky** · 1 upvotes

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

**@ezechi3l** · 0 upvotes

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

**@emilec** · 0 upvotes

> 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.

**@rodrigovieira92** · 0 upvotes

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

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