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jough
12,877 PointsOffering a misleading solution - php access modifiers
At 3:10 she changes the title of the 2nd recipe to lower case and then 'demonstrates' how it the access modifier did not capitalize it - she says this is because she "accessed the property directly" and that it needs to be private instead of public. But what she didn't do (until later) is update the object from $recipe2->title to $recipe->setTitle like she did in the first object.
It wasn't changing the property from public to private that changes the case, it was updating the object to use setTitle. setTitle changes the case even if the property is public.
So she's attributing a result to the wrong problem and then offering a solution that makes no difference. Giving solutions for things that aren't actually the cause of the problem makes learning php more confusing than it already is. :(