Pastable version of Base class for easy class property handling

<pre class='prettyprint' language='php'>&lt;?php
class PropertyHandler 
{
    const GET_REGEX = &quot;^get([aA-zZ0-9_]+)$&quot;;
    const SET_REGEX = &quot;^set([aA-zZ0-9_]+)$&quot;;

private $props;

function __construct()
    {
        $props = array();
    }

public function __call($method, $arguments)
    {
        if($this-&gt;isGetMethod($method))
        {
            return $this-&gt;execGetMethod($method);
        }elseif($this-&gt;isSetMethod($method))
        {
            return $this-&gt;execSetMethod($method, $arguments);
        }else
        {
            throw new Exception(&quot;Unhandled method $method&quot;);
        }
    }

private function isGetMethod($method)
    {
        return $this-&gt;isTypeMethod($method, self::GET_REGEX);
    }

private function isSetMethod($method)
    {
        return $this-&gt;isTypeMethod($method, self::SET_REGEX);
    }

private function isTypeMethod($method, $regex)
    {
        return (preg_match(&quot;/$regex/&quot;, $method) &gt; 0);
    }

private function execGetMethod($method)
    {
        $matches = array();

preg_match(&quot;/&quot; . self::GET_REGEX . &quot;/&quot;, $method, $matches);
        if(count($matches) &gt; 0)
        {
            return $this-&gt;getProp($matches[1]);
        }
    }

private function execSetMethod($method, $arguments)
    {
        if(count($arguments) &gt; 1)
        {
            throw new Exception(&quot;Set methods are not allowed to take more than one argument&quot;);
        }

$matches = array();

preg_match(&quot;/&quot; . self::SET_REGEX . &quot;/&quot;, $method, $matches);
        if(count($matches) &gt; 0)
        {
            $this-&gt;setProp($matches[1], $arguments[0]);
        }
    }

public function setProp($propName, $propVal)
    {
        if(!$propName)
        {
            throw new Exception(&quot;Invalid empty property name&quot;);
        }

$this-&gt;props[$propName] = $propVal;
    }

public function getProp($propName)
    {
        if(isset($this-&gt;props[$propName]))
        {
            return $this-&gt;props[$propName];
        }
    }
}

/**
 *  Very simple example
 */
class PropTest extends PropertyHandler
{
  public function __construct()
  {
    parent::__construct();
  }
}

$props = new PropTest();

//Notice that neither PropTest nor PropertyHandler actually have setFirstName or getFirstNames
//These are setting and retrieving associative the associative array value with key &quot;FirstName&quot;
$props-&gt;setFirstName('Mark');
echo $props-&gt;getFirstName();
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