I'm new to OOP/PHP. What's the practicality of visibility and extensibility in classes?

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Published on 2010-05-26T14:03:30Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 14:11 UTC
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I'm obviously brand new to these concepts. I just don't understand why you would limit access to properties or methods. It seems that you would just write the code according to intended results. Why would you create a private method instead of simply not calling that method? Is it for iterative object creation (if I'm stating that correctly), a multiple developer situation (don't mess up other people's work), or just so you don't mess up your own work accidentally?

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